Ashgabat

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)
Ceety
A view frae the north taewart the ceety centre
Seal
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

Sister ceeties

• Athens, Greece
• Albuquerque, Unitit States
• Ankara, Turkey

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