Ashgabat

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Ashgabat

Aşgabat, Ашхабад

Ashkhabad
Poltoratsk (1919-1927)
Ceety
A view frae the north taewart the ceety centre
A view frae the north taewart the ceety centre
Official seal of Ashgabat
Seal
Official logo of Ashgabat
Ashgabat is located in Turkmenistan
Ashgabat
Ashgabat
Location o Ashgabat in Turkmenistan
Coordinates: 37°56′N 58°22′E / 37.933°N 58.367°E / 37.933; 58.367
Kintra Turkmenistan
ProvinceAhal Province
foondit1881
Govrenment
 • MayorAzat Bilishov
Population
 (2012)
 • Total1,031,992
Time zoneUTC+5
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (not observed)
Area code(s)12

Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat, Persie: عشق آباد‎, Roushie: Ашхабад, an aa Ashkhabad in transliteration frae Roushie (literally, Persian meanin: "Ceety o Love") or umwhilie Poltoratsk atween 1919–1927) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Turkmenistan, a kintra in Central Asie. It haes a population o 695,300 (2001 census estimate), 2009 estimates aroond 1 million fowk in Ashgabat, an is situatit atween the Kara Kum desert an the Kopet Dag mountain range. Ashgabat haes a primarily Turkmen population, wi ethnic minorities o Roushies, Armenians, an Azeris. It is 250 km frae the seicont lairgest ceety in Iran, Mashhad.

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