Ashgabat
Satellite view of Ashgabat. Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat) is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border.The city has a population of 1,030,063 (2022 census). The city was founded in 1881 on the basis …