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| Location | Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan |
| Geographic coordinates | 40 00 N, 60 00 E |
| Map references | asia |
| Area |
total: 488,100 sq km water: negl. land: 488,100 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly larger than California |
| Land boundaries |
total: 3,736 km border countries: afghanistan 744 km, iran 992 km, kazakhstan 379 km, uzbekistan 1,621 km |
| Coastline | 0 km; note - Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea (1,768 km) |
| Maritime claims | |
| 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 |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: vpadina akchanaya -81 m; note - sarygamysh koli is a lake in northern turkmenistan with a water level that fluctuates above and below the elevation of vpadina akchanaya (the lake has dropped as low as -110 m) highest point: gora ayribaba 3,139 m |
| Natural resources | petroleum, natural gas, coal, sulfur, salt |
| Land use |
arable land: 3.72% permanent crops: 0.14% other: 96.14% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 17,500 sq km (2003 est.) |
| Natural hazards | NA |
| Environment - current issues | contamination of soil and groundwater with agricultural chemicals, pesticides; salination, water-logging of soil due to poor irrigation methods; Caspian Sea pollution; diversion of a large share of the flow of the Amu Darya into irrigation contributes to that river's inability to replenish the Aral Sea; desertification |
| Environment - international agreements |
party to: biodiversity, climate change, climate change-kyoto protocol, desertification, hazardous wastes, ozone layer protection signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Geography note | landlocked; the western and central low-lying, desolate portions of the country make up the great Garagum (Kara-Kum) desert, which occupies over 80% of the country; eastern part is plateau |
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