ASHGABAT

Ashgabat

Ashgabat is the capital of, and the largest city in, Turkmenistan in Central Asia, situated between the Kara Kum desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range. The 2001 census estimated a population of 695,300, while 2009 estimates around 1 million people in Ashgabat, primarily Turkmen with ethnic minorities of Russians, Armenians and Azeris. It is from the second largest city in Iran, Mashhad.

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