Ashgabat (tkm)

Ashgabat

Ashgabat ranks 1,072nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Brandenburg an der Havel, Harrow, London, and La Ceiba. Memorable people born in Ashgabat include Serdar Berdimuhamedow, Dmitri Shepilov, and Kurban Berdyev. Memorable people who died in Ashgabat include Saparmurat Niyazov, Berdi Kerbabayev, and Durdy Bayramov. Ashgabat has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Ashgabat is located in Turkmenistan.

Ashgabat is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border. The city has a population of 1,030,063. Read more on Wikipedia