Baş Küngüt (also, Bash-Kyungyut) is a village and municipality in the Shaki district of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,381.

The etymology of the name Küngüt in the name of the village comes from the name of the country Kang (Kangar), with a Sogdian plural suffix -t, expressed in the ancient Chinese annals as Guniue.

• Baş Küngüt at GEOnet Names Server
• Zuev Yu.A., "Early Türks: Essays on history and ideology", Almaty, Daik-Press, 2002, ISBN 9985-4-4152-9 (In Russian)