Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan ranks 125th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Singapore, Myanmar (Burma), and Mozambique. Memorable people born in present day Turkmenistan include Saparmurat Niyazov, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, and Abu Muslim. Memorable people who died in Turkmenistan include Saparmurat Niyazov, Ahmad Sanjar, and Yazdegerd III. Turkmenistan has been the birth place of many politicians and athletes and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ashgabat is the capital and largest city. It is one of the six independent Turkic states. With a population of 6.5 million, Turkmenistan is the 35th most-populous country in Asia and has the lowest population of the Central Asian republics while being one of the most sparsely populated nations on the Asian continent. Read more on Wikipedia