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Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat) [a] [b] is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. [8] It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border. The city has a population of 1,030,063 (2022 census). Satellite view of Ashgabat
The population continued growing to over 5 million in 2001–2006. [4] According to opposition media, Turkmenistan's population in 2019 was no more than 3.3 million. [ 5 ] As of July 2021, anonymous official sources informed opposition news media that the population of Turkmenistan had fallen to between 2.7 and 2.8 million.
The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district. ... Ashgabat: 791,000: 12.5%: 2017 ...
According to official data announced in Ashgabat in February 2001, 91% of the population were Turkmen, 3% were Uzbeks and 2% were Russians. Between 1989 and 2001 the number of Turkmen in Turkmenistan doubled (from 2.5 to 4.9 million), while the number of Russians dropped by two-thirds (from 334,000 to slightly over 100,000).
Map of Turkmenistan. This is a list of cities in Turkmenistan. ... Population Province; 1: Ashgabat: 823,000 (2018) [5] national capital region 2: Türkmenabat [6 ...
See also Map of the Boroughs of Ashgabat. As of January 5, 2018, Ashgabat includes four boroughs ... This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at 05:02 (UTC).
List of Middle Eastern countries by population. 6 languages. ... February 11, 2024: 11
Regarding cities "with district status" (Turkmen: etrap hukukly), by Turkmen law, "...such cities must have population over 30,000 and be the administrative center of a province (welaýat); headed by a presidentially appointed häkim." Though this officially limits the possible number of such cities to five (the number of provinces), in reality ...