Arkadag
Arkadag is a smart city in southern Turkmenistan. It became the regional capital of Ahal Province effective 20 December 2022. It is a largely greenfield development started in 2019 with an initial budget of $1.5 billion.Photo: Bayram A, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include International Hippodrome and National Zoological Museum.
International Hippodrome
Pitch
The International Equestrian Sports Complex is the largest horse racing hippodrome in Turkmenistan. The total area of the complex is 90 hectares. The complex was opened on 29 October 2011, at a cost of US$106,800,000.
National Zoological Museum
Zoo
The National Museum of Wildlife, commonly known in English as Ashgabat Zoo, is a zoological garden—zoo—located in the locality of Gökdere, Gökdepe District, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan, just west of the capital Ashgabat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Babaarap.
Babaarap
Village
Babaarap, also spelled Babarap, or formerly Baba-Arab, is a village in located in Gökdepe District, Ahal Province, in southern Turkmenistan. In 2022, it had a population of 9,681 people.
Arkadag
- Type: City with 567 residents
- Description: capital of Ahal Province, Turkmenistan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ahal Province, Turkmenistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.06969° or 38° 4′ 11″ northLongitude
58.06777° or 58° 4′ 4″ eastPopulation
567Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)Open location code
8HCW3399+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 10281667568OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
13526673Wikidata ID
Q115864157
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Arkadag” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرقاداغ”
- Arabic: “أركاداغ”
- Chinese: “阿卡達格”
- Chinese: “阿爾卡達格”
- Czech: “Arkadag”
- Esperanto: “Arkadag”
- Finnish: “Arkadag”
- French: “Arkadag”
- German: “Arkadag”
- Italian: “Arkadag”
- Japanese: “アルカダグ”
- Kazakh: “Аркадағ”
- Kirghiz: “Аркадаг”
- Korean: “아르카닥”
- Latvian: “Arkadaga”
- Persian: “آرقاداغ”
- Persian: “آرقهداغ”
- Polish: “Arkadag”
- Russian: “Аркадаг”
- Spanish: “Arkadag”
- Tatar: “Аркадаг (Төрекмәнстан)”
- Tatar: “Аркадаг”
- Turkish: “Arkadağ”
- Turkmen: “Arkadag”
- Uzbek: “Arqadag‘”
- Uzbek: “Arqadagʻ”
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Notable Places Nearby
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