Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

The country's capital (pop. 536,000) is a fairly modern city squeezed between the scrubby desert of the Kara-Kum and the mountains of the Kopet Dag. The city was founded in 1881 to house the Russ...

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