Central Asia
Turkmenistan
Ahal Province

Ashgabat

Ashgabat is the capital of , surrounded by . It was designed as to be an impressive capital city, filled with monumental projects sheathed in costly white marble.
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  • Type: City with 1,030,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Turkmenistan
  • Also known as: “‘Ishqabad”, “`Ishqabad”, “`Ishqábád”, “Ak-Gaudan”, “Aschchabad”, “Asgabat”, “Ašgabat”, “Aşgabat”, “Ashabad”, “Ashgabad”, “Ashkabad”, “Ashkabat”, “Ashkhabad”, “Ashqabad”, “Askabad”, “Askhabad”, “Ishqabad”, “Ishqabat”, and “Konjikala”
  • Historically known as: “Poltoratsk”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Thepulin, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Turkmen Carpet Museum and Ruhyýet Palace.

Museum
Photo: Ibrahim, CC BY 2.5.
The or the National Carpet Museum is a national museum, situated on 5 Gorogly Street in Ashgabat, . The museum opened on 24 October 1994.

Government office
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Rukhiyet Palace is a palace in the capital city of Asgabat in . The palace holds official state events, forums, meetings, and inaugurations. The palace was built by the French company Bouygues.

Government office
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is a government office.

Ashgabat

Latitude
37.9405° or 37° 56′ 26″ north
Longitude
58.3823° or 58° 22′ 57″ east
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
219 metres (719 feet)
Inception
1881
IATA airport code
ASB
United Nations Location Code
TM ASB
Open location code
8H9WW9RJ+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1811650017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
162183
Wiki­data ID
Q23438
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Ashgabat” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ashgabat”
  • Adyghe: “Ашхабад”
  • Afrikaans: “Asjchabad”
  • Afrikaans: “Asjchabat”
  • Afrikaans: “Asjgabat”
  • Afrikaans: “Asjkabat”
  • Albanian: “Aschgabat”
  • Albanian: “Ashgabat”
  • Amharic: “አሽጋባል”
  • Amharic: “አሽጋባት”
  • Arabic: “عشق آباد”
  • Arabic: “عشق أباد”
  • Arabic: “عشق ابآد”
  • Arabic: “عشق‌آباد”
  • Aragonese: “Aşgabat”
  • Armenian: “Աշգաբադ”
  • Armenian: “Աշխաբադ”
  • Armenian: “Ասխաբադ”
  • Asturian: “Axgabat”
  • Avaric: “ГІашкъабад”
  • Avaric: “ГӀашкъабад”
  • Aymara: “Ashgabat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşğabat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşqabad şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşqabad”
  • Balinese: “Ashgabat”
  • Bashkir: “Ашхабад”
  • Basque: “Asgabat”
  • Belarusian: “Асхабад”
  • Belarusian: “Ашгабад”
  • Belarusian: “Ашгабат”
  • Belarusian: “Ашхабад”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Туркменістана”
  • Bengali: “আশখাবাদ”
  • Bengali: “আশগাবাত”
  • Betawi: “Asgabad”
  • Bosnian: “Ašgabat”
  • Bosnian: “Aşgabat”
  • Bosnian: “Ashgabat”
  • Breton: “Achgabad”
  • Breton: “Achgabat”
  • Breton: “Achkabad”
  • Breton: “Asgabat”
  • Breton: “Aşgabat”
  • Breton: “Ashgabad”
  • Breton: “Ashgabat”
  • Breton: “Poltoratsk”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашгабад”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашгабат”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашхабад”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашхабат”
  • Burmese: “အက်ရှ်ဂါဘတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Aixkhabad”
  • Catalan: “Asgabat”
  • Catalan: “Aşgabat”
  • Catalan: “Poltoratsk”
  • Cebuano: “Aşgabat Şäheri”
  • Central Bikol: “Ashgabat”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەشق ئاباد”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەشقاباد”
  • Central Kurdish: “عیشق ئاباد”
  • Chechen: “Ашхабад”
  • Chinese: “Ashgabat”
  • Chinese: “阿什哈巴德”
  • Chinese: “阿什哈巴特”
  • Chuvash: “Ашхабад”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aşğabat”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aşqabat”
  • Croatian: “Ašgabat”
  • Croatian: “Aşgabat”
  • Croatian: “Ašhabad”
  • Croatian: “Ashgabat”
  • Czech: “Ašchabad”
  • Czech: “Ašgabad”
  • Czech: “Aşgabat”
  • Danish: “Asjkhabad”
  • Dutch: “Asgabat”
  • Dutch: “Aşgabat”
  • Dutch: “Ashgabad”
  • Dutch: “Ashgabat”
  • Dutch: “Asjchabad”
  • Dutch: “Asjchabat”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ашхабад”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عشق اباد”
  • Erzya: “Ашхабад ош”
  • Erzya: “Ашхабад”
  • Esperanto: “Aşgabat”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝgabato”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝĥabado”
  • Estonian: “Asgabat”
  • Estonian: “Ašgabat”
  • Estonian: “Aşgabat”
  • Estonian: “Ashabad”
  • Estonian: “Ašhabad”
  • Estonian: “Poltoratsk”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ashgabat”
  • Finnish: “Asgabat”
  • Finnish: “Ašgabat”
  • Finnish: “Aşgabat”
  • Finnish: “Ašhabad”
  • Finnish: “Ashgabat”
  • Finnish: “Poltoratsk”
  • French: “Achgabad”
  • French: “Achgabat”
  • French: “Achkabad”
  • French: “Achkhabad”
  • French: “Aşgabat”
  • French: “Ashgabad”
  • French: “Ashgabat”
  • French: “Ashkabad”
  • French: “Ashkhabad”
  • French: “Poltoratsk”
  • Gagauz: “Aşgabad”
  • Galician: “Achkhabad”
  • Galician: “Ashkhabad”
  • Georgian: “აშხაბადი”
  • Georgian: “ევროპული მარშრუტი E60”
  • German: “Achqābād”
  • German: “Ašchabad”
  • German: “Aschchabad”
  • German: “Aschgabad”
  • German: “Aschgabat”
  • German: “Aschkābād”
  • German: “Aşgabat şäheri”
  • German: “Asgabat”
  • German: “Aşgabat”
  • German: “Ashgabad”
  • German: “Poltorazk”
  • Gilaki: “أشک‌آباد”
  • Gilaki: “عشق‌آباد”
  • Greek: “Ασγκαμπάτ”
  • Guarani: “Achagaváte”
  • Gujarati: “અશગબાત”
  • Haitian: “Achgabat”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ashgabat”
  • Hausa: “Ashgabat”
  • Hebrew: “אשגאבט”
  • Hebrew: “אשגבאט”
  • Hindi: “अश्क़ाबाद”
  • Hindi: “अश्गबात”
  • Hindi: “अश्गाबात”
  • Hungarian: “Asgabat”
  • Hungarian: “Aşgabat”
  • Hungarian: “Ashabad”
  • Icelandic: “Asgabat”
  • Icelandic: “Aşgabat”
  • Ido: “Ashgabat”
  • Iloko: “Ashgabat”
  • Indonesian: “Ashgabat”
  • Indonesian: “Askhabad”
  • Interlingua: “Ashgabat”
  • Interlingue: “Ashgabat”
  • Irish: “Ashgabat”
  • Italian: “Asgabat”
  • Italian: “Aşgabat”
  • Italian: “Ashgabat”
  • Italian: “Ashkhabad”
  • Italian: “Askhabad”
  • Japanese: “アシガバート”
  • Japanese: “アシガバード”
  • Japanese: “アシガバット”
  • Japanese: “アシハバード”
  • Kannada: “ಅಶ್ಗಾಬಾಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಅಶ್ಗಾಬಾತ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಶ್ಗಬಾತ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ashxabad”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Ашхабад”
  • Kazakh: “Ашғабад”
  • Kazakh: “Ашғабат”
  • Kazakh: “Ашқабад”
  • Kazakh: “Ашқабат”
  • Kazakh: “Ашхабад”
  • Kirghiz: “Ашхабад”
  • Komering: “Ashgabat”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ашхабад”
  • Komi: “Ашхабад”
  • Korean: “아슈가바뜨”
  • Korean: “아슈가바트”
  • Korean: “아슈하바트”
  • Korean: “아슈하파트”
  • Korean: “아시가바트”
  • Korean: “아시하바트”
  • Kurdish: “Aşgabad”
  • Kurdish: “Aşgabat”
  • Lao: “ອາສກາບັດ”
  • Latin: “Aschchabadum”
  • Latin: “Aşgabat”
  • Latvian: “Ašgabata”
  • Latvian: “Ašhabada”
  • Latvian: “Ašhabata”
  • Latvian: “Poltoracka”
  • Ligurian: “Ashgabat”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Axgabat”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿什哈巴德”
  • Lithuanian: “Aschabadas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašchabadas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašgabatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Poltorackas”
  • Livvi: “Ašhabad”
  • Lombard: “Ašgabad”
  • Lombard: “Aşgabat”
  • Lombard: “Ashgabat”
  • Lombard: “Askabat”
  • Lombard: “Poltorack”
  • Low German: “Aschgabad”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ašchabad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aschchabad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aşgabat”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ashgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Achgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Achkhabad - Aşgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Ašchabad”
  • Macedonian: “Ašchabadas”
  • Macedonian: “Aschchabad”
  • Macedonian: “Aschgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Asgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Ašgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Aşgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Aşğabat”
  • Macedonian: “Ašgabata”
  • Macedonian: “Asgabate”
  • Macedonian: “Aŝgabato”
  • Macedonian: “Ašhabad”
  • Macedonian: “Ashgabat”
  • Macedonian: “Ashxabad”
  • Macedonian: “Ashxobod”
  • Macedonian: “Asjabad”
  • Macedonian: “Asjchabad”
  • Macedonian: “Asjchabat”
  • Macedonian: “Asjkhabad”
  • Macedonian: “Aşkabat”
  • Macedonian: “Aşqabad”
  • Macedonian: “Aszchabad”
  • Macedonian: “Ασγκαμπάτ”
  • Macedonian: “Ашгабад”
  • Macedonian: “Ашгабат”
  • Macedonian: “Ашғабад”
  • Macedonian: “Ашғабат”
  • Macedonian: “Ашхабад ош”
  • Macedonian: “Ашхабад”
  • Macedonian: “Ашхабат”
  • Macedonian: “Ашхобад”
  • Macedonian: “Ишқобод”
  • Macedonian: “აშხაბადი”
  • Macedonian: “אשגאבאט”
  • Macedonian: “אשגאבט”
  • Macedonian: “عشق آباد”
  • Macedonian: “عشق اباد”
  • Macedonian: “عشق‌آباد”
  • Macedonian: “አሽጋባት”
  • Macedonian: “अश्क़ाबाद”
  • Macedonian: “अश्गाबाद”
  • Macedonian: “আশখাবাদ”
  • Macedonian: “அசுகாபாத்”
  • Macedonian: “ಅಶ್ಗಾಬಾತ್”
  • Macedonian: “അഷ്ഗാബാദ്”
  • Macedonian: “อาชกาบัต”
  • Macedonian: “아시가바트”
  • Macedonian: “アシガバート”
  • Macedonian: “阿什哈巴德”
  • Maithili: “अस्गाबत”
  • Malay: “Ashgabat”
  • Malayalam: “Ashgabat”
  • Malayalam: “അഷ്ഗബാത്”
  • Malayalam: “അഷ്ഗാബാദ്”
  • Maltese: “Ashgabat”
  • Manx: “Aşgabat”
  • Manx: “Ashgabat”
  • Marathi: “अश्काबाद”
  • Marathi: “अश्गाबाट”
  • Marathi: “अश्गाबाद”
  • Mazanderani: “عشق‌آباد”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ashgabat”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ashgabat”
  • Minangkabau: “Ashgabat”
  • Mingrelian: “აშხაბადი”
  • Moksha: “Ашгабад”
  • Mongolian: “Ашгабат”
  • Mongolian: “Ашхабад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “عشق آباد”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߛ߭ߑߜ߭ߓߊ߫”
  • Navajo: “Séíbąąh Kin”
  • Nepali: “अस्गाबत”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aşgabat”
  • Northern Luri: “عشق آباد”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashgabat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashkhabad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asjkhabad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aşgabat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashgabat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asjgabat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asjkhabad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poltoratsk”
  • Norwegian: “Asjkhabad”
  • Novial: “Ashgabat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asgabat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aşgabat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ashgabat”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ascgaburh”
  • Ossetian: “Ашхабад”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸ਼ਗ਼ਾਬਾਤ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸ਼ਗਾਬਾਦ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸ਼ਕ਼ਾਬਾਦ”
  • Papiamento: “Askhabad”
  • Persian: “عشق آباد”
  • Persian: “عشق‌آباد”
  • Persian: “عشق‌اباد”
  • Piemontese: “Ashgabat”
  • Polish: “Aschabad”
  • Polish: “Ashgabat”
  • Polish: “Aszchabad”
  • Polish: “Aszchabat”
  • Polish: “Aszgabat”
  • Portuguese: “Achgabad”
  • Portuguese: “Ascabade”
  • Portuguese: “Asgabade”
  • Portuguese: “Aşgabat”
  • Portuguese: “Asgabate”
  • Portuguese: “Ashgabad”
  • Portuguese: “Ashgabat”
  • Portuguese: “Ashkabad”
  • Portuguese: “Ashkhabad”
  • Pushto: “عشق آباد”
  • Romanian: “Aşgabat”
  • Romanian: “Așgabat”
  • Romanian: “Aşhabad”
  • Romanian: “Așhabad”
  • Romanian: “Aşhabat”
  • Romanian: “Așhabat”
  • Romanian: “Poltoraţk”
  • Romanian: “Poltorațk”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ашхабад”
  • Russian: “Ashgabat”
  • Russian: “Асхабад”
  • Russian: “Ашгабад”
  • Russian: “Ашгабат”
  • Russian: “Ашхабад”
  • Russian: “Полторацк”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱥᱜᱟᱵᱟᱛ”
  • Sardinian: “Ashgabat”
  • Scots: “Ashgabat”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ashgabat”
  • Serbian: “Ашхабад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ašgabat”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ašhabad”
  • Shona: “Ashgabat”
  • Sindhi: “اشڪ آباد”
  • Sinhala: “ආශ්ගාබාත්”
  • Slovak: “Ašchabad”
  • Slovak: “Ašgabat”
  • Slovenian: “Ašgabad”
  • Slovenian: “Ašgabat”
  • Slovenian: “Aşgabat”
  • Slovenian: “Ašhabad”
  • Slovenian: “Ašhabat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عاشق‌آباد”
  • Spanish: “Achgabad”
  • Spanish: “Achkabad”
  • Spanish: “Asgabad”
  • Spanish: “Asgabat”
  • Spanish: “Aşgabat”
  • Spanish: “Ashgabad”
  • Spanish: “Ashgabat”
  • Spanish: “Ashjabad”
  • Spanish: “Ashkabad”
  • Spanish: “Ashkhabad”
  • Spanish: “Asjabad”
  • Sundanese: “Ashgabat”
  • Swahili: “Ashgabat”
  • Swedish: “Asjchabad”
  • Swedish: “Poltoratsk”
  • Tagalog: “Asgabat”
  • Tagalog: “Ashabat”
  • Tagalog: “Ashgabat”
  • Tagalog: “Ashkhabad”
  • Tajik: “Ашқобод”
  • Tajik: “Ашхобад”
  • Tajik: “Ашхобод”
  • Tajik: “Ишқобод”
  • Talysh: “Ašgabad”
  • Talysh: “Aşqabad”
  • Tamil: “அசுகாபாத்”
  • Tamil: “அஷ்கபாட்”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்காபாத்”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்ஹகபட்”
  • Tatar: “Ашкабад”
  • Tatar: “Ашһабад”
  • Tatar: “Полторацк”
  • Telugu: “అషకాబాద్”
  • Thai: “อาชกาบัต”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཧྲི་ཁ་པད​་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཧྲི་ཁ་པད​།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཧྲི་ཁ་པད།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཧྲི་ག་བཏ།”
  • Turkish: “Aşgabat”
  • Turkish: “Aşkabat”
  • Turkmen: “Aşgabat şäheri”
  • Turkmen: “Aşgabat”
  • Udmurt: “Ашхабад”
  • Uighur: “Ashxabad”
  • Uighur: “ئاشخاباد”
  • Ukrainian: “Асхабад”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашгабад”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашгабат”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашхабад”
  • Ukrainian: “Полторацьк”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aschabad”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ašchabad”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ašchabat”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ašgabat”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aşgabat”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Poltorack”
  • Urdu: “اشک آباد”
  • Urdu: “عشق آباد”
  • Uzbek: “Ashxabod”
  • Uzbek: “Ashxobod”
  • Venetian: “Aşgabat”
  • Veps: “Ašhabad”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashgabat”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashkhabad”
  • Volapük: “Aşgabat”
  • Võro: “Asgabat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aşgabat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ashgabat”
  • Welsh: “Aşgabat”
  • Welsh: “Ashgabat”
  • Welsh: “Ashkhabad”
  • Western Armenian: “Աշխապատ”
  • Western Frisian: “Asjchabad”
  • Western Panjabi: “اشک آباد”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿什哈巴德”
  • Yakut: “Ашгабат”
  • Yiddish: “אשגאבאט”
  • Yiddish: “אַשגאַבאַט”
  • Yoruba: “Ashgabat”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿什哈巴德”
  • Zulu: “i-Ashgabat”
  • “Asgabat”

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