Darvaza
Darvaza is a rural council in Ak bugdaý District, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan of about 2000 inhabitants, located in the middle of the Karakum Desert, about 260 km north of Ashgabat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,690 residents
- Description: rural council in Turkmenistan
- Also known as: “Derweze”
Darvaza
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Darvaza” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دروازة”
- Arabic: “ديرويز”
- Chinese: “地狱之门”
- Chinese: “达瓦札”
- Chinese: “達瓦札”
- Dutch: “Derweze”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديرويز”
- French: “Darvaza”
- German: “Darvaza”
- German: “Derweze”
- Hebrew: “דרווזה”
- Hindi: “दरवेज़े”
- Hindi: “देरवेज़े”
- Hungarian: “Derweze”
- Indonesian: “Derweze”
- Italian: “Darvaza”
- Italian: “Derweze”
- Japanese: “ダルヴァザ”
- Japanese: “タルバサ”
- Japanese: “ダルバザ”
- Japanese: “地獄の扉”
- Korean: “다르바자”
- Lithuanian: “Darvaza”
- Lithuanian: “Darvazas”
- Lithuanian: “Dervezė”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Derweze”
- Malay: “Derweze”
- Malayalam: “ദേർവേസ്”
- Persian: “دروازه”
- Polish: “Derweze”
- Portuguese: “A Porta do Inferno”
- Portuguese: “Darvaz”
- Portuguese: “Darvaza”
- Portuguese: “Derweze”
- Portuguese: “Porta do Inferno”
- Romanian: “Derweze”
- Russian: “Врата Ада”
- Russian: “Дарваз”
- Russian: “Дарваза”
- Russian: “Дверь в Ад”
- Spanish: “Derweze”
- Swedish: “Derweze”
- Tamil: “தர்வாசா”
- Turkish: “Cehennem Kapısı”
- Turkmen: “Derweze şäherçesi”
- Turkmen: “Derweze”
- Ukrainian: “Дарваза”
- Ukrainian: “Дерваз”
- Ukrainian: “Дерваза”
- Ukrainian: “Дервезе”
- Urdu: “دروازہ، ترکمانستان”
- Vietnamese: “Derweze”
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