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 | Turkmenistan |
| Location: | Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan |
| Area: | 488,100 sq km |
| Climate: | subtropical desert |
| Terrain: | flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran; borders Caspian Sea in west |
| Population: | 4,366,383 (July 1999 est.) |
| Religions: | Muslim 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2% |
| Languages: | Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7% |
| Capital: | Ashgabat |
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