Karakum

The Karakum 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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  • Type: Sand
  • Description: desert in Turkmenistan
  • Also known as: “Desert de Kara-kum”, “Desert de Karakum”, “Desert du Karakoum”, “Deserto de Kara Kum”, “Deserto Karakum”, “Deșertul Karakun”, “Dezerto de Karakum”, “Gara Gum”, “Garagum çöli”, “Kara Kum”, “Kara Kum-öknen”, “Kara-Koum”, “Kara-Kum”, “Kara-kum-öknen”, “Karakoem”, “Karakum Desert”, “Karakum-ørken”, “Karakum-ørkenen”, “Karakumöknen”, “Karakumørkenen”, “Karakumská poušť”, “Karakumska pusćina”, “Karakumų dykuma”, “Karakumwoestijn”, “Karakumy”, “Кара-Кум”, “Пустыня Кара-Кум”, “بیابان قره قوم”, “بیابان قرهٔ قوم”, “صحراء الرمال السوداء”, “صحراء كراكورم”, “صحرای قره‌قوم”, “قراقوم”, “काराकुम”, “까라꿈 사막”, “까라꿈사막”, “카라쿰사막”, “カラクーム砂漠”, and “中央卡拉库姆沙漠”

Karakum

Latitude
40.1334° or 40° 8′ 0″ north
Longitude
59.1232° or 59° 7′ 23″ east
Open location code
8HGX44MF+97
Open­Street­Map ID
way 232927613
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­sand
Wiki­data ID
Q172702
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Karakum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karakum”
  • Albanian: “Karakumi”
  • Arabic: “صحراء قره قوم”
  • Armenian: “Կարակումներ”
  • Asturian: “Desiertu de Karakum”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaraqum səhrası”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡараҡом”
  • Basque: “Karakum”
  • Belarusian: “Каракумы”
  • Bengali: “কারাকুম মরুভূমি”
  • Bosnian: “Pustinja Karakum”
  • Bulgarian: “Каракум”
  • Catalan: “Karakum”
  • Cebuano: “Garagum (kamadan sa Turkmenistan)”
  • Cebuano: “Garagum”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیابانی قەرەقووم”
  • Chinese: “卡拉库姆沙漠”
  • Chinese: “卡拉庫姆沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Karakum”
  • Czech: “Karakum”
  • Danish: “Karakum”
  • Dutch: “Karakum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا قره قوم”
  • Esperanto: “Karakumo”
  • Estonian: “Karakum”
  • Finnish: “Karakum”
  • French: “désert du Karakoum”
  • French: “Désert du Karakoum”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Karakum”
  • Georgian: “ყარაყუმი”
  • German: “Karakum”
  • Greek: “Καρακούμ”
  • Guarani: “Karakũ”
  • Hebrew: “קאראקום”
  • Hindi: “काराकुम रेगिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Kara-kum”
  • Ido: “Dezerto Karakum”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Karakum”
  • Indonesian: “Karakum”
  • Italian: “deserto del Karakum”
  • Italian: “Deserto del Karakum”
  • Japanese: “カラクム砂漠”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರಕಮ್ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къаракъум”
  • Kazakh: “Qaraqum”
  • Kazakh: “Қарақұм”
  • Kazakh: “قاراقۇم”
  • Kirghiz: “Кара-Кум чөлү”
  • Korean: “카라쿰 사막”
  • Lak: “Къара-къум”
  • Latin: “Karakum”
  • Latvian: “Karakums”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakumai”
  • Macedonian: “Каракум”
  • Malay: “Gurun Karakum”
  • Malayalam: “കാരകും മരുഭൂമി”
  • Mazanderani: “قره قوم”
  • Mingrelian: “ყარაყუმი”
  • Mongolian: “Каракум цөл”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karakum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karakum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karakum”
  • Norwegian: “Karakum”
  • Oriya: “କାରାକୁମ ମରୁଭୂମି”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਾਕੁਮ ਰੇਗਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Persian: “بیابان قره‌قوم”
  • Persian: “قره‌قوم”
  • Polish: “Kara-kum”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Caracum”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Karakum”
  • Pushto: “د قراقم دښته”
  • Quechua: “Karakum”
  • Romanian: “Karakum”
  • Russian: “Каракумы”
  • Rusyn: “Каракум”
  • Scots: “Karakum Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Karakum”
  • Serbian: “Karakum”
  • Serbian: “Каракум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karakum”
  • Slovak: “Karakum”
  • Slovenian: “Karakum”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قره قوم چؤلو”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Karakum”
  • Swedish: “Karakum”
  • Tamil: “காராகும் பாலைவனம்”
  • Tatar: “Караком чүле”
  • Telugu: “కారకుం ఎడారి”
  • Thai: “การากุม”
  • Turkish: “Karakum Çölü”
  • Turkmen: “Garagum”
  • Ukrainian: “Каракуми”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karakum”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے قرہ قوم”
  • Urdu: “کاراکم”
  • Uzbek: “Qoraqum”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Karakum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Karakum”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարաքում անապատը”
  • Western Frisian: “Karakum”
  • Western Panjabi: “قراقم صحرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉库姆沙漠”
  • “Garagum”

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