Place:Turkmenistan

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NameTurkmenistan
Alt namesRepublic of Turkmenistansource: Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 734
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republicsource: Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-164
Turkmen SSRsource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 358
Turkmenistánsource: UN Terminology Bulletin (1993) p 86
Turkmenskaja Sovetskaja Socialistčeskaja Respublikasource: Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-181
Turkmenskayasource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 666-667
Turkmenskaya SSRsource: Times Atlas of the World (1988)
Türkmenistan Jumhuriyätisource: Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 734
TypeCountry
Coordinates40°N 60°E
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Mary
Merv
Province
Ahal ( 1991 - )
Balkan ( 1991 - )
Dashhowuz ( 1991 - )
Lebap ( 1991 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Turkmenistan ( or ; Türkmenistan), formerly also known as Turkmenia, is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR). Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, Uzbekistan to the east and northeast, Kazakhstan to the northwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.

Turkmenistan's GDP growth rate of 11% in 2012 comes on the back of several years of sustained high growth, but albeit from a very basic undiversified economy powered by export of a single commodity. It possesses the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas resources. Although it is wealthy in natural resources in certain areas, most of the country is covered by the Karakum (Black Sand) Desert.

The Turkmen government operates as a single-party system. Turkmenistan was ruled by President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov (called "Türkmenbaşy", "Leader of the Turkmens") until his sudden death on 21 December 2006. Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov was elected the new president on 11 February 2007.

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