Turkmenistan Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Turkmenistan with its capital Ashkabad is located in Asia (Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea). It covers some 488,101 square kilometres (slightly larger than California) with 5,179,000 citizens. Turkmen, Russian and Uzbek are the languages used by people in Turkmenistan (consider regional differences). Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are bordering countries.

Turkmenistanis a country in Central Asia with a population of about 5 million, and an area around half a million km2, or almost the size of Spain. Turkmenistan is one of just two Stalinist countries in existence (the other being North Korea) and the government is in firm control of nearly everything, although, surprisingly, tourism is welcomed as long as you don't discuss politics or omnipresent police/military.

Pictures from Capital (Ashkabad)

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About Turkmenistan

The terrain offersflat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south with low mountains along border with Iran and borders Caspian Sea in west. The average density of population is about 10 per km². The climate in Turkmenistan can be described as subtropical desert. Possible natural disasters include NA.

To reach someone in Turkmenistan dial +993 prior to a number. There are 478,000 installed telephones. And there are 1,500,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".tm". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 5 regions/states in Turkmenistan we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Turkmenistani population grew at a rate of 1.14% (or by 56,326 citizens). With 30,980 deaths and 96,941 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.34%. -9,635 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Turkmenistan: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

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Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.