What is Kangarli District?
{{Infobox settlement | name = Kəngərli (Kangarli) | type = [[Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan|Raion]] | image_skyline = | image_caption = | image_map = Kangarli District in Azerbaijan 2021.svg | map_caption = Map of Azerbaijan showing Kangarli Raion | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[Azerbaijan]] | population_as_of = 2005 | population_total = 25,500 | population_footnotes = | area_total_km2 =682 | population_density_km2 = auto | area_code_type = Telephone code | area_code = 0136 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = AZ6827 | seat_type = Capital | seat = [[Givrakh]] |coordinates={{coord|39|23||N|45|06||E|display=inline,title}} }} '''Kangarli''' or '''Kengerli''' is the newest [[raion]] of [[Azerbaijan]]. It is in the [[Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic]]. There were 25,379 people in 2004. It was split off from [[Sharur]] raion in March 2004. The administrative center of the raion is [[Givrakh]]. On 25 May 2004, President [[Ilham Aliyev]] chose Nazim Cafarov as the executive head of the raion.<ref>{{cite news | publisher = [[BBC Monitoring Central Asia]] | title = Azeri leader appoints new executive heads in two districts | date = May 26, 2004 | page = 1 | url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/450470528 | id = {{ProQuest|450470528}} }}</ref> The name Kangarli was first for a Turkic tribe who founded [[Kangarli Khanate]]. The capital was at [[Maku, Iran|Maku]] in what is now [[Iran]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.azerbaijan.az/_Districts/_districts_e.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117104935/http://azerbaijan.az/_Districts/_districts_e.html |date=2019-01-17 }} {{Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan}} {{asia-stub}} [[Category:Districts of Azerbaijan]]