Balkan Province
Balkan Province is the western region of Turkmenistan, spanning the western Karakum and much of the Caspian Basin.Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Turkmenbashi
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Turkmenbashi, formerly known as Krasnovodsk, is a beautiful coastal city of 68,000 people on the Caspian Sea in Balkan Province. It serves as Turkmenistan's main access to the sea and has much of the country's oil refineries.
Balkanabat
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Balkanabat, formerly Nebit-Dag and Neftedag, is the administrative centre of Balkan Province, the largest province in Turkmenistan. It lies at the foot of the Balkan Daglary mountain range.
Balkan Province
- Type: State with 530,000 residents
- Description: province of Turkmenistan
- Also known as: “Balkan”, “Balkan Region”, “Balkan Welaýaty”, “Balkanskaya Oblast’”, “Balkanskiy Velayat”, “Krasnovodsk Oblast”, “Krasnovodskaya Oblast’”, and “Krasnowodsk Oblasty”
- Neighbors: Ahal Province and Dashoguz Province
- Categories: region of Turkmenistan and locality
- Location: Turkmenistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
39.9354° or 39° 56′ 7″ northLongitude of center
54.912° or 54° 54′ 43″ eastPopulation
530,000Elevation
178 metres (584 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 677412013OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Balkan Province” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Wilayah Balkan”
- Amharic: “ባልካን”
- Arabic: “بلقان”
- Arabic: “محافظة بلخان”
- Arabic: “محافظة بلقان”
- Arabic: “ولاية بلقان”
- Armenian: “Բալկանի վելայաթ”
- Azerbaijani: “Balkan vilayəti”
- Basque: “Balkan probintzia”
- Bavarian: “Balkan welaýaty”
- Belarusian: “Балканскі велаят”
- Belarusian: “Балканскі вэлаят”
- Bengali: “বলকান প্রদেশ”
- Bengali: “বালকান”
- Bulgarian: “Балкан”
- Catalan: “província de Balkan”
- Catalan: “Província de Balkan”
- Cebuano: “Balkan”
- Chinese: “巴尔坎州”
- Chinese: “巴爾坎州”
- Crimean Tatar: “Balqan vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Balkan welaýaty”
- Croatian: “Provincija Balkan”
- Czech: “Balkanský region”
- Danish: “Balkan Province”
- Dutch: “Balkan”
- Esperanto: “Balkan”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Balkan”
- Estonian: “Balkani vilajett”
- Estonian: “Krasnovodski oblast”
- Finnish: “Balkanin maakunta”
- French: “Balkan”
- Galician: “Provincia de Balkan”
- Georgian: “ბალკანის ველაიათი”
- German: “Balkan welayaty”
- German: “Balkan welaýaty”
- Greek: “Μπαλκάν”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Μπαλκάν”
- Gujarati: “બાલ્કન પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Balkan”
- Hebrew: “מחוז בלקן”
- Hindi: “बलक़ान प्रांत”
- Hindi: “बलक़ान प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “बल्क़ान प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “बाल्कन प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “बाल्क़ान प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Balkan tartomány”
- Hungarian: “Balkan”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Balkan”
- Italian: “Balkan Welayaty”
- Italian: “provincia di Balkan”
- Italian: “Provincia di Balkan”
- Japanese: “バルカン州”
- Javanese: “Balkan”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಲ್ಕನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Balkan wa’layati”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Balkan wálayatı”
- Kazakh: “Балкан велаяты”
- Kazakh: “Балкан облысы”
- Kazakh: “Балкан уәлаяты”
- Kazakh: “Балқан велаяты”
- Kazakh: “Балқан облысы”
- Kazakh: “Балқан уәлаяты”
- Kazakh: “Балқан”
- Kirghiz: “Балкан вилаяты”
- Kirghiz: “Балкан”
- Korean: “발칸 주”
- Korean: “발칸주”
- Latvian: “Balkana vilajets”
- Latvian: “Balkanas vilajets”
- Lithuanian: “Balkano velajatas”
- Lithuanian: “Krasnovodsko sritis”
- Malay: “Provinsi Balkan”
- Malay: “Wilayah Balkan”
- Marathi: “बाल्कन प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “بلخان (ولایت)”
- Mazanderani: “بلخان”
- Mongolian: “Балкан муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Balkan”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Balkan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belkan provins”
- Oromo: “Balkaan”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਲਕਾਨ”
- Persian: “استان بلخان”
- Persian: “استان بلکان”
- Persian: “بلخان”
- Persian: “بلکان”
- Persian: “ولایت بلخان”
- Polish: “Wilajet balkański”
- Polish: “Wilajet bałkański”
- Portuguese: “Balkan”
- Pushto: “بلخان ولايت”
- Pushto: “بلکان”
- Romanian: “Provincia Balkan”
- Russian: “Балканский велаят”
- Scots: “Balkan Province”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Балкан”
- Sinhala: “බල්කන් පළාත”
- Somali: “Balkan”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلخان اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Balkan”
- Swahili: “Balkan”
- Swedish: “Balkan”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Balkan”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Балкан”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Балқон”
- Tamil: “பால்கன் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Балкан вилаяте”
- Tatar: “Балкан”
- Telugu: “బాల్కన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “బాల్కన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบัลกัน”
- Turkish: “Balkan ili”
- Turkish: “Balkan vilayeti”
- Turkish: “Balkan”
- Turkmen: “Balkan welaýaty”
- Turkmen: “Balkan”
- Uighur: “بالقان ۋىلايىتى”
- Uighur: “بالكان ۋىلايىتى”
- Ukrainian: “Балканський велаят”
- Urdu: “صوبہ بلخان”
- Uzbek: “Bolqon viloyati”
- Uzbek: “Балканский велаят”
- Uzbek: “Болқон вилояти”
- Vietnamese: “Balkan”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Balkan”
- Western Armenian: “Պալքանի նահանգ”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بلخان”
- Wu Chinese: “巴尔坎州”
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