Lokbatan is a settlement and municipality in Baku,

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. It has a population of 33,245. The municipality consists of the settlements of Lokbatan, Shubany, and Heybat. It is the location of a large

mud volcano A mud volcano or mud dome is a landform created by the eruption of mud or slurries, water and gases. Several geological processes may cause the formation of mud volcanoes. Mud volcanoes are not true igneous volcanoes as they do not produce la ...

, and a historic oilfield. One of the first moving pictures filmed in Azerbaijan was of an oil well blowout in the 1930s. The mud volcano produced spectacular flames of natural gas in October 2001.

Culture

Sports

The city has one professional football team, Qaradağ Lökbatan, currently competing in the second-flight of

i football, the Azerbaijan First Division.

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Azer News article
Municipalities of Baku {{Baku-geo-stub