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Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan; also known as Turkmenia) is a Turkic country in Central Asia. The name Turkmenistan is erived from Persian, meaning "land of the Turkmen". The name of its capital, Ashgabat, derived from Persian as well, loosely translating as "the city of love". Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the southwest, Uzbekistan to the northeast, Kazakhstan to the northwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west.

Trivia about turkmenistan

  • Oral epics are sung by poets & composers known as bakhashi in this central Asian "stan" nation
  • Next afterTurkey
  • The Karakum Desert, which means "black sand" in the Turkmen language, covers about 70% of this country
  • The leader of' this former Soviet republic renamed April for his mom & January Turkmenbashi (his official name)
  • Even the women in this country are called Turkmen
  • Turkmenistan,Japan,Mongolia
  • Ankara is the capital of Turkey and Ashgabat is the capital of this country
  • Ex-Soviet republic ruled by Saparmurad Niyazov, who calls himself "Chief of the Turkmen"
  • Ashgabat is the capital city of this central Asian nation

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