asia • TKM
Turkmenistan
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40° N / 60° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Ashgabat
- Population
- 7,494,498 2024
- Area
- 488,100 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Russian, Turkmen
- Currency
- Turkmenistan manat (TMT)
- Geography
- Landlocked
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) is one of the most isolated countries in the world and is dubbed as the "motherland of neutrality". Formerly a part of the Soviet Union, it is situated in Central Asia and is surrounded by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
Landscape & landmarks
Ancient cities, once major centers of trade and culture: […] Konye Urgench […] Merv […] Nissa Natural features: […] Karakum Desert […] Yangykala CanyonRead the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Meals often start with a soup, as chorba, a meat and vegetable soup. Another national dish is plov, rice with mutton, onions, carrots, spices, raisins, peas or quinces. Manty are steamed dumplings filled with lamb. Ku'urma is lamb, cooked in its own fat. Ichlekli is a meat and onion pie and gutap is a pie filled with meat, potatoes, spinach and pumpkin.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-03. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Central Asia
- Calling code
- +993
- Internet domain
- .tm
- Land border codes
- AFG, IRN, KAZ, UZB
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .tm. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.