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Baku is the lowest capital city in the world
The Azerbaijani capital sits about 28 metres below sea level
Baku lies on the Absheron Peninsula beside the Caspian Sea, in a basin that drops below global sea level. Its low position and the sea's own falling level over recent decades shape the shoreline and the city's waterfront. Only a few inhabited places are lower, and none of them is a capital.
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Baku is the lowest capital city in the world: the short answers
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