Coordinates: 40°39′11″N 47°44′26″E / 40.65306°N 47.74056°E / 40.65306; 47.74056

Goychay Göyçay
—  City & Municipality  —
Goychay
Coordinates: 40°39′11″N 47°44′26″E / 40.65306°N 47.74056°E / 40.65306; 47.74056
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Goychay
Population (2008)[1]
• Total	36,720
Time zone	AZT (UTC+4)
• Summer (DST)	AZT (UTC+5)

Goychay (also, Göyçay, Gekchai, Geokchai, Geokchay, Geoktschai, Geokčaj, Geychay, and Göychay) is a city and municipality in and the capital of the Goychay Rayon of Azerbaijan. The municipality includes the city of Goychay and the nearby village of Qızılqaya.^[2]

As of December 2004 the urban population was 35,344^[3]

Concerted settlement dates back to the late 1850s following the devastating 1859 earthquake in Shemakha, though the town was only officially incorporated as such in 1916.^[4]

Notable natives [link]

• Enver Mammadkhanli — writer, Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan SSR.^[5]
• Mirza Khazar — prominent radio journalist, essayist, translator of the Bible in Azeri language.
• Rasul Rza — writer, People's Poet of Azerbaijan (1960).^[6]
• Sadykh bey Aghabekov — general in the Russian Imperial Army, founder and reformer of Azerbaijani Police, Major General, Orientalist.

External resources [link]

Map of Goychay [1]

References [link]

• Goychay (city) at GEOnet Names Server

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