Darvaza
Derweze, also known as Darvaza, is a village in Gökdepe District, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. It is located in the middle of the Karakum Desert, about 260 km north of Ashgabat.
- Type: Village with 2,170 residents
- Description: village in Ahal Province, Turkmenistan
- Also known as: “Aeroport” and “Derweze”
- Address: Derweze geňeşligi, Gökdepe etraby
Darvaza
- Categories: administrative territorial entity of Turkmenistan, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Ahal Province, Turkmenistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
40.08767° or 40° 5′ 16″ north
Longitude
58.35083° or 58° 21′ 3″ east
Population
2,170
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
Open location code
8HGW39Q2+38
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Darvaza” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دروازة”
- Arabic: “ديرويز”
- Cebuano: “Darvaza”
- Chinese: “地狱之门”
- Chinese: “达瓦札”
- Chinese: “達瓦札”
- Dutch: “Derweze”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديرويز”
- Finnish: “Derweze”
- French: “Darvaza”
- Galician: “Derweze”
- 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: “Aeroport”
- Turkmen: “Derweze şäherçesi”
- Turkmen: “Derweze”
- Ukrainian: “Дарваза”
- Ukrainian: “Дерваз”
- Ukrainian: “Дерваза”
- Ukrainian: “Дервезе”
- Urdu: “دروازہ، ترکمانستان”
- Vietnamese: “Derweze”
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