Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. ... Ashgabat: 791,000: 12.5%: 2017 ... [78] 2024 Sahrawi Arab ...
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.
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).
By law cities equivalent to a district must have a population of more than 30,000 and must be either a provincial capital or be one of the economic, cultural and administrative centers in its province. Cities "in a district" are subordinated to the district (etrap) government and are administered jointly. By law they must have a population of ...
As of January 5, 2018, Ashgabat includes four boroughs (uly etraplar), ... This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at 05:02 (UTC).
Total population; 501 [1] ... with the largest communities of 1,605 and 894 in Ashgabat and Mary, ... This page was last edited on 30 June 2024, ...
A$375 million float glass and glass container plant built by Tepe Inşaat of Turkey was opened February 14, 2018, in Ovadandepe north of Ashgabat. [32] [33] [34] It replaced a Soviet-era glass factory located in central Ashgabat. In 2019, the value of Turkmenistan's glass exports as reported by trading partners was $9.5 million.