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Goranboy District

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Country
  
Azerbaijan

Telephone code
  
(+994) 22

Population
  
96,500 (2010)

Postal code
  
2200

Area
  
1,790 km²

Capital
  
Goranboy

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Goranboy is a rayon of Azerbaijan. During the Soviet era the region was best known for the oil-cure sanatorium resort of Naftalan, though administratively Naftalan technically counts as an independent city. Naftalan is now starting to operate again following several years of virtual inaction when the resorts were filled with refugees from the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict. Following fighting during the 1991–1992 a small strip in the south of the rayon is controlled by Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. The southern half of the rayon is claimed by the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic as the district of Shahumian.

Map of Goranboy, Azerbaijan

References

Goranboy District Wikipedia