Turkmenistan

[ turk-me-nuh-stan, -stahn ]

/ ˌtɜrk mɛ nəˈstæn, -ˈstɑn /

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noun

a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.

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Also called Turkomen. Formerly Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.

Words nearby Turkmenistan

Turkish towel, Turkish Van, Turkism, Turkman, Turkmen, Turkmenistan, Turko-, Turkoman, Turkoman rug, Turkomen, Turkophile

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How to use Turkmenistan in a sentence

In it, he said, the balance of power would pivot around Asia’s heartland—basically, the “stans,” from Kazakhstan in the north through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, to Pakistan in the south.
Central Asia Could Be the Key to Driving a Wedge Between Russia and China|Ian Morris|May 12, 2022|Time
So far only a handful of countries worldwide, including Turkmenistan, Indonesia and Micronesia, have announced plans to make vaccines mandatory for all adults.
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Apple’s upcoming encrypted browsing feature, for instance, won’t be made available to users in certain authoritarian regimes, such as China, Belarus, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines.
WhatsApp will finally let users encrypt their chat backups in the cloud|Manish Singh|September 10, 2021|TechCrunch
Previously, she roamed the world as an astronomer and served with the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan.
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The giant irrigation projects began in the 1960s in the dry lands of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The Aral Sea's Disappearing Act|Anna Nemtsova|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To the north, Jowzjan borders on the Amu Darya River and Turkmenistan, a former part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The Warlord Who Defines Afghanistan: An Excerpt From Bruce Riedel’s ’What We Won’|Bruce Riedel|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are important in a way that a Kyrgyzstan or a Turkmenistan simply is not.
What Bret Stephens Said At Yeshiva University|Bret Stephens|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Tehran has been actively working against Israeli-Turkmen relations, but Turkmenistan has fiercely asserted its neutrality.
Israel Looks to Eurasia to Achieve Top Energy and National Security Goals|Allison Good|October 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Her route is well planned, yet somewhere—on the streets of Tehran, in a yurt in Turkmenistan—Lin-Liu loses her way.
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British Dictionary definitions for Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

/ (ˌtɜːkmɛnɪˈstɑːn) /

noun

a republic in central Asia: the area has been occupied by a succession of empires; a Turkmen state was established in the 15th century but suffered almost continual civil strife and was gradually conquered by Russia; in 1918 it became a Soviet republic and gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991: deserts including the Kara Kum cover most of the region; agricultural communities are concentrated around oases; there are rich mineral deposits. Official language: Turkmen. Religion: believers are mainly Muslim. Currency: manat. Capital: Ashkhabad. Pop: 5 113 040 (2013 est). Area: 488 100 sq km (186 400 sq miles)

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Cultural definitions for Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

[ (turk-men-uh-stan, turk-men-uh-stahn, turk-men-uh-stan) ]

Republic in west-central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, by Uzbekistan to the north and northwest, by Afghanistan and Iran to the south, and by the Caspian Sea to the west. Its capital and largest city is Ashkhabad.

notes for Turkmenistan

This former member of the Soviet Union declared its independence in 1991.