The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Turkmenistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 16th most number of Geographers behind Iraq, and Austria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Geographers of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ibn Khordadbeh (820 - 912)
With an HPI of 69.07, Ibn Khordadbeh is the most famous Turkmen Geographer. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.
Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (Arabic: ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خرداذبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh (also spelled Ibn Khurradadhbih; ابن خرددة), was a high-ranking bureaucrat and geographer of Persian descent in the Abbasid Caliphate. He is the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Turkmen geographers born between 820 and 820. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Turkmen geographers include Ibn Khordadbeh.
