AZ — Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a country at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Baku, the capital, is a major oil city with futuristic architecture alongside a UNESCO-listed medieval old city. Azerbaijan is rich in oil and natural gas. The Azerbaijani Manat (AZN) uses the ₼ symbol, one of the newer currency symbols in Unicode. For developers, the AZ country code maps to the az-AZ locale for Azerbaijani, which transitioned from Cyrillic to Latin script in 1991. The .az domain serves Azerbaijani web presence, and +994 is the dialing code. Azerbaijan's script transition from Cyrillic to Latin means older data may use Cyrillic while modern content uses Latin — applications may need to handle both. The ₼ currency symbol (U+20BC) was added to Unicode in 2013 and may not be supported by older fonts. Azerbaijan's classification (Europe vs. Asia) varies between sources, making it an edge case for regional categorization in applications.