Fun fact 4 about Mary
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Mary's library, opened in 2011, is designed to store three million books.
Mary
Turkmenistan
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Mary
Turkmenistan
Country
Turkmenistan
Population
123.0K
Coordinates
37.60, 61.83
Mary is a city on an oasis in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, located on the Murgab River. It was founded in 1884 about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the ruins of the ancient abandoned great city of Merv and was actually named Merv until 1937.
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