Location: Asia
Capital: Asgabat (550.000 inhab.)
Population: 4,459,000
Area: 488,000 km2
Coin: 1 manat = 100 tenesi
Languages: Turkmen, Russian, Uzbek
Religions: Moslem, Orthodox
The Independence's Year: 1991
Mountains: Kopet Dag (2940 m.)
Rivers: Amudar'ja, Tedzen, Atrek
Lakes: Caspian Sea

Turkmenistan can be considered the most inhospitable country of the central Asia..
Only to South the territory is cultivable thanks also to big works of irrigation, which allow to cultivate cereals, potatoes, tomatoes, fruit and above all the cotton, of which Turkmenistan is one of the greatest producer and exporter.
The country is very rich of natural gas and in more less measure also of petroleum.