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Turkmenistan is a vast, largely desert nation in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the north-west, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the south-east, Iran to the south, and the Caspian Sea to the west. The country is dominated by the Karakum Desert - one of the largest sand deserts in the world - which covers roughly 70 percent of its territory in an immense expanse of shifting dunes, clay plains, and ancient dried riverbeds that stretches from the Caspian shore to the Afghan border. Despite this forbidding terrain, Turkmenistan sits at the heart of one of the great crossroads of human history, its territory traversed for millennia by the Silk Road caravans that carried silk, spices, and ideas between China, Persia, and the Mediterranean world.
The ancient city of Merv, situated in the Murghab River oasis in the south-east, was one of the greatest cities of the medieval Islamic world - a sprawling metropolis that served at its peak as the capital of the Seljuk Empire and one of the most important centres of scholarship, trade, and culture between Baghdad and Samarkand. Today its vast archaeological landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, preserves the ruins of successive cities spanning four thousand years of continuous settlement, their mud-brick ramparts, mausoleums, and palace complexes rising from the desert in a state of haunting and magnificent desolation. Explore related settings through our UNESCO Sites, Museums & Monuments and Remote Locations collections.
Turkmenistan is perhaps best known internationally for the Darvaza Gas Crater - popularly known as the Door to Hell - a collapsed natural gas cavern in the heart of the Karakum Desert that has been burning continuously since Soviet engineers set it alight in 1971 to prevent the spread of methane gas, creating a fiery pit roughly 70 metres wide whose eerie orange glow illuminates the desert night for kilometres around and has become one of the most extraordinary and surreal natural spectacles in Central Asia. Beyond this singular attraction, the country's Kopet Dag Mountains along the Iranian border, the Caspian coastline, and the ancient ruins of Nisa - the Parthian royal capital - add further dimensions to a landscape of considerable archaeological and natural interest. Browse related feeds under Scenic Views, Nature and Volcanoes on EarthLive.TV.
Ashgabat, the capital, is one of the most extraordinary cities in the world - a surreal showcase of white marble architecture, golden statues, and monumental public buildings constructed on an almost incomprehensible scale by successive authoritarian governments determined to project an image of national grandeur across a largely empty desert landscape. The city holds multiple Guinness World Records for its concentration of white marble-clad buildings and its oversized architectural ambitions, creating an urban environment unlike anything else on earth.
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Turkmenistan is a vast, largely desert nation in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the north-west, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the south-east, Iran to the south, and the Caspian Sea to the west. The country is dominated by the Karakum Desert - one of the largest sand deserts in the world - which covers roughly 70 percent of its territory in an immense expanse of shifting dunes, clay plains, and ancient dried riverbeds that stretches from the Caspian shore to the Afghan border. Despite this forbidding terrain, Turkmenistan sits at the heart of one of the great crossroads of human history, its territory traversed for millennia by the Silk Road caravans that carried silk, spices, and ideas between China, Persia, and the Mediterranean world.
The ancient city of Merv, situated in the Murghab River oasis in the south-east, was one of the greatest cities of the medieval Islamic world - a sprawling metropolis that served at its peak as the capital of the Seljuk Empire and one of the most important centres of scholarship, trade, and culture between Baghdad and Samarkand. Today its vast archaeological landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, preserves the ruins of successive cities spanning four thousand years of continuous settlement, their mud-brick ramparts, mausoleums, and palace complexes rising from the desert in a state of haunting and magnificent desolation. Explore related settings through our UNESCO Sites, Museums & Monuments and Remote Locations collections.
Turkmenistan is perhaps best known internationally for the Darvaza Gas Crater - popularly known as the Door to Hell - a collapsed natural gas cavern in the heart of the Karakum Desert that has been burning continuously since Soviet engineers set it alight in 1971 to prevent the spread of methane gas, creating a fiery pit roughly 70 metres wide whose eerie orange glow illuminates the desert night for kilometres around and has become one of the most extraordinary and surreal natural spectacles in Central Asia. Beyond this singular attraction, the country's Kopet Dag Mountains along the Iranian border, the Caspian coastline, and the ancient ruins of Nisa - the Parthian royal capital - add further dimensions to a landscape of considerable archaeological and natural interest. Browse related feeds under Scenic Views, Nature and Volcanoes on EarthLive.TV.
Ashgabat, the capital, is one of the most extraordinary cities in the world - a surreal showcase of white marble architecture, golden statues, and monumental public buildings constructed on an almost incomprehensible scale by successive authoritarian governments determined to project an image of national grandeur across a largely empty desert landscape. The city holds multiple Guinness World Records for its concentration of white marble-clad buildings and its oversized architectural ambitions, creating an urban environment unlike anything else on earth.
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