Shuvalan

Şüvəlan
Municipality
Shuvalan lighthouse
Şüvəlan
Coordinates: 40°29′20″N 50°12′25″E / 40.48889°N 50.20694°E / 40.48889; 50.20694
Country	Azerbaijan
City	Baku
District	Xəzər-Khazar
Population
• Total	14,992
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Şüvəlan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 14,992. The population origin comes mostly from a settlement of Qala, Azerbaijan.

According to the old generation, an ancient times people in Qala, used Shuvalan as pasture for the animals: sheep, cows and horses. Then later on they moved to Shuvalan because the vegetation potential and due to cold weather in winter times in Qala.

• Shuvelan Park, one of the shopping malls in Azerbaijan.

• Shuvelan Rehab Center.

• Almas Ildyrym - Azerbaijani Poet, after the Bolsheviks established their power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the fact that Ildyrym had been born into a wealthy merchant family plagued him for the rest of his life.

• Ruhulla Akhundov — First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1925–1926), People's Commissar of Education of Azerbaijan SSR.^[1]
• Ashraf Ashrafzade - Azerbaijani Musician (Clarinetist)

• Qala, Azerbaijan
• Shuvalan FK

• Şüvəlan (as Şüvələn) at GEOnet Names Server