Ashgabat

Ashgabat (, , , an aa Ashkhabad in transliteration frae Roushie (literally, Persian meanin: "Ceety o Love") or umwhilie Poltoratsk atween 1919–1927) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Turkmenistan, a kintra in Central Asie. It haes a population o 695,300 (2001 census estimate), 2009 estimates aroond 1 million fowk in Ashgabat, an is situatit atween the Kara Kum desert an the Kopet Dag mountain range. Ashgabat haes a primarily Turkmen population, wi ethnic minorities o Roushies, Armenians, an Azeris. It is 250 km frae the seicont lairgest ceety in Iran, Mashhad.

 Sister ceeties 
  Athens, Greece
  Albuquerque, Unitit States
  Ankara, Turkey


Category:Subdiveesions o Turkmenistan
Category:Transcaspian Oblast
Category:Populatit places alang the Silk Road
Category:Caipitals in Asie
Category:1881 establishments in Asie
Category:Populatit places established in 1881