It is located 7 km in the south-west from the city center, on the bank of the Araz River.

It was founded during the construction of the railway line (1908) of the Ulukhanlu (present Armenia) - Julfa.

[1][2] The name of Qarğalıq settlement made out from the components of qarqa//karqa (name one of the Turkic tribe) and suffix -lıq (used in meaning of belonging) means "(village) belonging to the tribe of Qarqa".

In one of the sources, the ethnonym of Karqa is mentioned as the name of a branch of one of the Karakalpaks tribes.

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