Known as home to rock carvings and mud volcanoes, there are nearly 700 mud volcanoes located around the world of which nearly 300 are located in this eastern part of Azerbaijan near the Caspian Sea. The name of Gobustan has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name of the City of Culture and Rock Art for Landscapes, because it includes these volcanoes and also because it preserves thousands of inscribed rock stones dating back to the twelfth century BC.
