Fun fact 1 about Ashgabat
city
Ashgabat was renamed Poltoratsk from 1919 until 1927 after a local revolutionary.
Ashgabat
Turkmenistan
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city
Ashgabat
Turkmenistan
Country
Turkmenistan
Population
1.0M
Coordinates
37.95, 58.38
Ashgabat is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Köpetdag 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.
From the “Etymology” section
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