Balkan Province

Balkan Province (, frae the Persian بلخان Balkhān) is ane o the Welayat (provinces) o Turkmenistan.  It is in the far wast o the kintra, borderin Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, an Iran.  Its caipital is Balkanabat, umwhile kent as Nebit Dag. It haes an aurie o 139,270 square kilometres an a population o approximately 553,500 fowk (2005 est.).Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000-2004, National Institute of State Statistics and Information of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 2005. Its population density o 3.3 persons per square kilometre is the lawest in Turkmenistan.

Ither ceeties include: Türkmenbaşy, Gumdag, Serdar, Hazar, Gyzyletrek, Esenguly.

Balkan Province haes significant energy reserves, which accoont for 94% o Turkmenistan's natural gas production an 12% o its petroleum production. It an aa generates 18% o the kintra's electric pouer. Due tae the vera law water supply, agricultur is negligible, an anerlie 4.5% of  Turkmenistan's arable lands are athin the province.

Aff its Caspian shores the Balkan Province includes the island o Ogurja Ada, the maist important island in Turkmenistan an ane o the lairgest in the Caspian Sea.

Destricts
Balkan Province is admeenistratively dividit intae 6 destricts (etraplar; singular: etrap) an 7 ceeties (il).Балканский Велаят Turkmenistan Districts Name chynges syne 1995 are shown in parentheses: 

Destricts
Bereket Destrict (umwhlie Gazanjyk)
Esenguly Destrict
Etrek Destrict (umwhile Gyzyletrek)
Magtymguly Destrict (umwhile Garrygala)
Serdar Destrict (umwhile Gyzylarbat)
Türkmenbaşy Destrict

Ceeties
Balkanabat
Bereket (Gazanjyk)
Garabogaz (formerly Bekdaş)
Gumdag
Hazar (umwhile Çeleken)
Serdar Ceety (umwhile Kyzyl-Arvat, Gyzylarbat) – grantit etrap status on 3 Februar 2008Halk Maslahaty resolution changing the status of Serdar City 
Türkmenbaşy Ceety (umwhile Krasnovodsk)

See an aa
 Ogurja Ada

References


Category:Provinces o Turkmenistan