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🇦🇿 Use CautionIs Azerbaijan Safe for First-Time Travelers?
Safety Scores / Azerbaijan
Travel verdict: Exercise Caution. The scores and risks below say why.
Safety Scores
Key Risks
- Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region; border tensions with Armenia
- Authoritarian government; LGBTQ+ travelers face significant risks
- Landmines in former conflict zones near Armenian border
- Limited press freedom; journalists face harassment
Travel Verdict: Exercise Caution
Avoid all former conflict zones; do not photograph military installations
Medical facilities below Western standards; full travel insurance essential
Cash-based economy; Azerbaijani Manat; ATMs in Baku
Emergency: 112
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