Hazar
Hazar, known as Çeleken until 1999 is a seaport town located on the Cheleken Peninsula of the Caspian Sea. In November 2022, it was downgraded from city-with-district-status to a town and, along with Gumdag, became subordinate to the city of Balkanabat.Photo: Amustard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 14,700 residents
- Description: town in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan
- Also known as: “Chaharken” and “Hazar, Turkmenistan”
- Historically known as: “Çeleken” and “Cheleken”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garagöl.
Garagöl
Village
Garagöl is a coastal village in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan. It is subordinate to Hazar, which is subordinate to Balkanabat, a city with district status. In 2022, it had population of 765 people. Garagöl is situated 4½ km southeast of Hazar.
Hazar
- Categories: human settlement, city, and locality
- Location: Balkan Province, Turkmenistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.4036° or 39° 24′ 13″ northLongitude
53.126° or 53° 7′ 34″ eastPopulation
14,700Elevation
-15 metres (-49 feet)United Nations Location Code
TM CHEOpen location code
8HFMC43G+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 3864684657OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Urdu—“Hazar” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Xəzər”
- Chinese: “哈扎尔”
- Chinese: “哈扎爾”
- Chuvash: “Хазар (Туркменистан)”
- Chuvash: “Хазар”
- Dutch: “Hazar”
- Estonian: “Çeleken”
- Estonian: “Hazar”
- Estonian: “Tšeleken”
- Finnish: “Hazar”
- French: “Hazar”
- German: “Hazar”
- Lithuanian: “Hazaras”
- Persian: “خزر، ترکمنستان”
- Persian: “خزر”
- Polish: “Hazar”
- Romanian: “Hazar, Turkmenistan”
- Russian: “Хазар”
- Russian: “Челекен”
- South Azerbaijani: “خزر، تورکمنیستان”
- South Azerbaijani: “هازار، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Çeleken”
- Spanish: “Hazar”
- Tajik: “Хазар (Туркманистон)”
- Tajik: “Хазар”
- Tatar: “Хәзәр”
- Turkmen: “Çeleken”
- Turkmen: “Hazar”
- Ukrainian: “Хазар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Čeleken”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hazar”
- Urdu: “خزر، ترکمانستان”
- “Hazar, Turkmenistan”
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