๐The crescent and eight-pointed star are symbols of Islam and Turkic heritage โ the star's eight points are often said to stand for the eight branches of the Turkic peoples.
๐ฅAzerbaijan is known as the "Land of Fire" โ natural gas escaping from the ground has kept flames burning on the Yanar Dag hillside for centuries.
๐Azerbaijan sits on the Caspian Sea, the largest inland body of water on Earth, on the boundary between Europe and Asia.
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The flag was first raised in 1918 by the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic โ the first secular democratic republic in the Muslim world โ and was restored in 1991.