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Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan ยท ะขััะบะผะตะฝะธั
Asia
ยท Central Asia
0Population
488.1Kkmยฒ of land
$6.86KGDP / person
AshgabatCapital
- ISO codes
- TM ยท TKM
- Density
- 12 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Russian, Turkmen
- Currency
- Turkmenistan manat (TMT)
- Dial code
- +993
- Internet domain
- .tm
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 39.8550ยฐ N, 58.6770ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Turkmen
- UN region
- Central Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $40.76B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Turkmenistan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
114th
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world population
Land area
54th
of 242 ยท 0.33% of world land
GDP per person
125th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
210th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Turkmenistan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,942,089 people, the 114th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,292 of everyone alive.
Covers 488,100 kmยฒ, making it the 54th largest country here - about 11.8 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 12 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Ashgabat, at 37.95ยฐ N, 58.38ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 727,700.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Ashgabat.
The currency is the Turkmenistan manat (TMT, symbol m).
Has 2 official languages: Russian and Turkmen.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Ashgabat
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UTC+05:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Ashgabat
Ahal
37.9500ยฐ N, 58.3833ยฐ E
727.7K
2
Tรผrkmenabat
Chardzhou
39.1100ยฐ N, 63.5800ยฐ E
234.82K
3
Mary
Mary
37.6000ยฐ N, 61.8333ยฐ E
178.71K
4
Tรผrkmenbaลy
Balkan
40.0230ยฐ N, 52.9697ยฐ E
68.29K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Turkmenistan.