Ahal Province

Ahal Province is the central region of . Wikivoyage also covers the capital district as part of Ahal Province.
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is the capital of , surrounded by Ahal Province. It was designed as to be an impressive capital city, filled with monumental projects sheathed in costly white marble.

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The Desert is a large, mostly empty desert that takes up most of the central section of . It is famous chiefly for one destination, the Derweze Gas Crater, also popularly known as the Door to Hell, an open pit lake of fire that has been burning for more than 50 years now.

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is a city in . Until 20 December 2022, it was the capital of Ahal Province. The area has been inhabited since around 5500 BC. Prehistoric sites in were discovered in excavations were conducted by Raphael Pumpelly and William Morris Davis in 1904.

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Nisa was an ancient settlement of the Parthians, located near the Bagyr neighborhood of , , 18 km west of the city center. Nisa is described by some as the first seat of the Arsacid Empire.

Gökdepe, previously spelled "Geok-Tepe" in Russian, is a city in and the administrative center of Gökdepe District, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan, 45 kilometres north-west of .

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Altyndepe, is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Turkmenistan, near Aşgabat, inhabited first from c. 3200 to 2400 BC in the Late Regionalization Era, and from c. 2400 to 2000 BC in the Integration Era as a full urban site.

Ahal Province

Latitude of center
38.8396° or 38° 50′ 22″ north
Longitude of center
58.861° or 58° 51′ 40″ east
Population
887,000
Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 677412018
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
162181
Wiki­data ID
Q399899
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Ahal Province” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Wilayah Ahal”
  • Amharic: “አሃል”
  • Arabic: “ولاية أهال”
  • Armenian: “Ահալի վելայաթ”
  • Asturian: “Provincia d’Ahal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ahal vilayəti”
  • Bashkir: “Аһал вилайәте”
  • Belarusian: “Ахалскі велаят”
  • Belarusian: “Ахалскі вэлаят”
  • Bengali: “আহাল প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “আহাল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахал (вилает)”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахал (провинция)”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахал”
  • Catalan: “Ahal”
  • Catalan: “província d’Ahal”
  • Catalan: “Província dAhal”
  • Cebuano: “Ahal”
  • Chinese: “阿哈尔州”
  • Chinese: “阿哈爾州”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ahal vilâyeti”
  • Czech: “Ahal”
  • Czech: “Ahalský region”
  • Danish: “Ahal Province”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ahal”
  • Dutch: “Ahal”
  • Esperanto: “Ahal”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Ahal”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Ahal”
  • Estonian: “Ahali vilajett”
  • Estonian: “Ašhabadi oblast”
  • Finnish: “Ahalin maakunta”
  • French: “Ahal”
  • French: “Province d’Ahal”
  • Georgian: “ახალის ველაიათი”
  • German: “Ahal Welayaty”
  • German: “Ahal welaýaty”
  • German: “Ahal”
  • Greek: “Αχάλ”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Αχάλ”
  • Gujarati: “અહાલ પ્રાંત”
  • Hausa: “Ahal”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אהאל”
  • Hindi: “आख़ाल प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “आख़ाल प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “आहल प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Ahal tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi ahal”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Ahal”
  • Italian: “Ahal Welayaty”
  • Italian: “provincia di Ahal”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Ahal”
  • Japanese: “アハル州”
  • Javanese: “Ahal”
  • Kannada: “ಅಹಲ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ahal wálayatı”
  • Kazakh: “Ахал уәлаяты”
  • Kazakh: “Ахал”
  • Kirghiz: “Ахал”
  • Kirghiz: “Ашгабат облусу”
  • Korean: “아할 주”
  • Korean: “아할주”
  • Latvian: “Ahala vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Ahalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ahalo velajatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašchabado sritis”
  • Malay: “Provinsi Ahal”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Ahal”
  • Marathi: “अहाल प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “آخال (ولایت)”
  • Mazanderani: “آخال”
  • Mingrelian: “ახალიშ ველაიათი”
  • Mongolian: “Ахал муж”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ahal”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Ahal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ahal-provinsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ahal-regionen”
  • Oromo: “Ahal”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਹਾਲ”
  • Persian: “آخال (استان)”
  • Persian: “اخال (استان)”
  • Persian: “استان آخال”
  • Persian: “استان اخال”
  • Persian: “ولایت آخال”
  • Polish: “Wilajet achalski”
  • Portuguese: “Ahal”
  • Pushto: “آخال ولايت”
  • Pushto: “احل”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Ahal”
  • Russian: “Ахалский велаят”
  • Scots: “Ahal Province”
  • Serbian: “Покрајина Ахал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ahalska pokrajina”
  • Sinhala: “අහාල් පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Ahalski vilajet”
  • Somali: “Ahal”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آخال اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Ahal”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de ahal”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Ahal”
  • Swahili: “Ahal”
  • Swedish: “Achal”
  • Swedish: “Ahal”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Аҳал”
  • Tamil: “அஹால் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ஆகால் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Ахал вилаяте”
  • Tatar: “Ахал”
  • Telugu: “అహల్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “అహల్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอาฮัล”
  • Turkish: “Ahal (vilayet)”
  • Turkish: “Ahal ili”
  • Turkish: “Ahal vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Ahal Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Ahal”
  • Turkmen: “Ahal welaýaty”
  • Turkmen: “Ahal”
  • Uighur: “ئاخال ۋىلايىتى”
  • Uighur: “ئاھال ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ахалський велаят”
  • Ukrainian: “Ахальський велаят”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ آخال”
  • Uzbek: “Ahal viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Axal viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Axal Viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Ахалский велаят”
  • Vietnamese: “Ahal”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Ahal”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Akhal”
  • Western Armenian: “Ահալի նահանգ”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اخال”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿哈尔州”

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