Geography of Turkmenistan
- Turkmenistan is: a landlocked country
- Location:
- Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere
- Eurasia
- Asia
- Central Asia
- Asia
- Time zone: UTC+05
- Extreme points of Turkmenistan
- High: Aýrybaba 3,139 m (10,299 ft)
- Low: Akjagaýa çöketligi −81 m (−266 ft)
- Land boundaries: 3,736 km
-
- Uzbekistan 1,621 km
- Iran 992 km
- Afghanistan 744 km
- Kazakhstan 379 km
- Coastline: none
- Population of Turkmenistan: 5,110,023 (Dec. 2006 est.) – 112nd most populous country
- Area of Turkmenistan: 488,100 km² – 52nd by total area
- Atlas of Turkmenistan
Read more about this topic: Outline Of Turkmenistan
Famous quotes containing the words geography of and/or geography:
“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)