!!!Turkmenistan: Geography
||Location|Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan
||Geographic Coordinates|40 00 N, 60 00 E[{GoogleMap location='40.0,60.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''488,100 sq km\\''land: ''469,930 sq km\\''water: ''18,170 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 488100\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 488099\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 488100\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 488100\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 491210\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 488100''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''3,736 km\\''border countries: ''Afghanistan 744 km, Iran 992 km, Kazakhstan 379 km, Uzbekistan 1,621 km
||Coastline|0 km; note - Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea (1,768 km)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Vpadina Akchanaya -81 m\\''__note:__ ''Sarygamysh Koli is a lake in northern Turkmenistan with a water level that fluctuates above and below the elevation of Vpadina Akchanaya (the lake has dropped as low as -110 m)\\''highest point: ''Gora Ayribaba 3,139 m
||Highest Mountains|__As there is no entry in [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com] we are listing mountain list of [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org] only:__\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Gora Ziyerati Chnagurak 1059 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||Terrain|flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran; borders Caspian Sea in west
||Natural Hazards|NA
||Natural Resource|petroleum, natural gas, sulfur, salt
||Land Use|''arable land: ''3.89%\\''permanent crops: ''0.12%\\''other: ''95.98% (2011)
||Climate|subtropical desert
||Irrigated Land|19,910 sq km (2006)
||Renewable Water Resources|24.77 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|contamination of soil and groundwater with agricultural chemicals, pesticides; salination, water logging of soil due to poor irrigation methods; Caspian Sea pollution; diversion of a large share of the flow of the Amu Darya into irrigation contributes to that river's inability to replenish the Aral Sea; desertification
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Ashgabat; Turkmenabat; Dasoguz; Mari; Balkanabat\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Turkmenistan/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked; the western and central low-lying desolate portions of the country make up the great Garagum (Kara-Kum) desert, which occupies over 80% of the country; eastern part is plateau