Yuxarı Aralıq (also, Yukhary Aralyg and Yukhari Aralik) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan.

It is located 420 km in the south-east from the district center, on the right bank of the Arpachay River.

Its population is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry.

In the Turkic languages, the word of başkənd (bashkend) also are using in meaning as "center", "main city", "capital".

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