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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.
Ashgabat Aşgabat, Ашхабад Ashkhabad Poltoratsk (1919-1927) | |
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Ceety | |
 A view frae the north taewart the ceety centre | |
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  Ashgabat Location o Ashgabat in Turkmenistan | |
| Coordinates: 37°56′N 58°22′E | |
| Kintra |  Turkmenistan |
| Province | Ahal Province |
| foondit | 1881 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Azat Bilishov |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 1,031,992 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (not observed) |
| Area code(s) | 12 |
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