Azerbaijan, Baku, 18 September / Trend corr. U.Ismayilova/ In January to June, 3,344,900 people passed the Azerbaijani border, 728,600 people more than in the same period of 2007, State Statistical Committee reported on 17 September.
A total of 49.2% of those who entered the country were foreigners. The people leaving the Azerbaijan for 132 countries comprised 50.8%.
A total of 1,644,200 arrived in the country in the aforementioned period, with 52.4% of them the citizens of Azerbaijan, 47.6% - foreigners (citizens of Georgia - 33.2%, Russia - 29.7%, Iran - 16.7%, Turkey - 9.7%, UK - 1.6%, Ukraine - 1.5%, USA - 0.8%, Kazakhstan - 0.7%, Germany - 0.6%, other countries - 5.5%).
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