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Located in the Karakum Desert, people have nicknamed it "The Door to Hell." The breathtaking site exists thanks to a science experiment-gone-wrong. SEE ALSO: The most stylish Olympic uniforms from ...
The Darvaza gas crater, also known as the Door to Hell, at night in the Karakum Desert. The Karakum is home to the Darvaza gas crater. Also called the "Door to Hell" or the "Gates of Hell" by locals, it is a crater of natural gas that has been burning since 1971. The crater is a major tourist attraction, with hundreds of visitors arriving each ...
Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which covers the Zarafshan-Karakum portion of the ancient Silk Road and historical sites along the route. On September 17, 2023, UNESCO designated a 886 km stretch of the Silk Road network in Central Asia as a World Heritage site.
The Hari River (Persian: هریرود or Dari: هری رود, romanized: Harī Rōd; Pashto: د هري سیند) or Herat River or Tejen River or Harirud is a river flowing 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it forms the Tejen oasis and disappears in the Karakum Desert.
In the Karakum Desert, summer temperatures can reach 50 °C (122 °F), while on the coast they are a little less hot, but it is more humid. [3] In the winter, the north is cold and moist, with a mean January temperature of −10 to 0 °C (14 to 32 °F), while the south is slightly less cold and also moist, with the temperature averaging above 0 ...
The desert borders on the Syr Darya river to the south. The desert covers an area of 40,000 km 2 (15,000 sq mi). [3] [4] The landscape in the region is quite flat, with a height that varies from 55 to 118 metres (180 to 387 ft) above mean sea level. The dunes can reach heights of around 25 m (82 ft). The area is very dry, and the dried-out ...
The target of Israel's airstrikes across Lebanon and its ground invasion in the south of the country is the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, Iran's chief ally in the region.
Tejen (older spellings: Tedzhen, Tejend, Tejent) is an oasis city in the Karakum Desert, in Ahal Province of Turkmenistan. It lies along the M37 highway, between Dushak and Mary, 223 kilometres (139 mi) by road southeast of Ashgabat. [1] It has a population of approximately 52,000. To the east is the larger oasis of Mary.