Yanar Dagh (Burning Mountain)

Yanar Dagh (also rendered Yanar Dag; English: "Burning Mountain") is a natural gas seep on a small hillside of the Absheron Peninsula near the Caspian Sea and Baku, Azerbaijan. Multiple travel guides, encyclopedic sources, and visitor accounts consistently describe it as a site where natural gas emerges from a thin, porous layer of sandstone and burns continuously, with flames reported to reach up to about three metres. The site is presented in modern sources as a long-standing natural phenomenon and a tourist attraction reachable from Baku. Across the supplied materials, the phenomenon is treated as geological in origin: natural gas seepage that ignites and produces a persistent flame. Travel narratives and tour operators emphasize the site's cultural resonance — linking it to Azerbaijan's identity as the "Land of Fire" and noting that the flames have local religious and historical resonance (for example, being "revered by Zoroastrians" in some travel accounts) — but these sources do not provide primary ethnographic detail or named ritual practices. Visitor blogs and tour sites supply firsthand descriptive impressions of seeing the continuously burning hillside, which underpins the site's role in contemporary cultural tourism. No supplied sources identify named supernatural entities, apparitions, or paranormal forces associated with Yanar Dagh. The materials do not offer precise geodetic coordinates, original discovery dates, or contested explanations; all referenced sources consistently frame the site as a natural, continuously burning gas seep that functions as a notable natural landmark and tourist site.