Central Asia
Turkmenistan
Mary Province

Mary

Mary is a city in , . Most travellers' main reason to visit it is to reach the ruins of the ancient city of , which are 35 km to the east.
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  • Type: City with 123,000 residents
  • Description: city of Mary Province in Turkmenistan
  • Also known as: “Mary, Turkmenistan” and “Merv”
  • Address: Mary

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mary Provincial Regional and History Museum and Gurbanguly Hajy Mosque.

Museum
Mary History Museum is a history museum of Mary, , located in the center of the city. The exposition of the museum reflects the history and culture of Mary from ancient times to the present day, is unique in size and content of the exhibits.

Mosque
The Gurbanguly Hajji Mosque is a in Mary, Turkmenistan. It was completed in 2009, during the rule of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. It is a prominent landmark in Mary with its four minarets.

Library
Mary is a city on an oasis in the in , located on the Murgab River. It was founded in 1884 about 30 kilometres from the ruins of the ancient abandoned great city of and was actually named Merv until 1937.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Merv.

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is an old city on the Silk Road 35 km east of the modern city of Mary in the of . There is a state park for the old city center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Mary

Latitude
37.594° or 37° 35′ 39″ north
Longitude
61.8398° or 61° 50′ 23″ east
Population
123,000
Elevation
223 metres (732 feet)
IATA airport code
MYP
United Nations Location Code
TM MYP
Open location code
8J93HRVQ+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245889876
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1218667
Wiki­data ID
Q5713
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Mary” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Mary”
  • Arabic: “ماري”
  • Armenian: “Մարի”
  • Asturian: “Mary”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marı”
  • Bashkir: “Мары”
  • Basque: “Mary”
  • Belarusian: “Мары”
  • Bengali: “ম্যারি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мари”
  • Catalan: “Mary”
  • Cebuano: “Mary”
  • Chechen: “Мары”
  • Chinese: “木鹿”
  • Chinese: “馬利”
  • Chinese: “马雷”
  • Chuvash: “Мары”
  • Czech: “Mary”
  • Danish: “Mary”
  • Dutch: “Mary”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارى”
  • Esperanto: “Mari”
  • Esperanto: “Maro”
  • Esperanto: “Mary”
  • Estonian: “Mary”
  • Finnish: “Mary”
  • French: “Mary”
  • Georgian: “მარი”
  • German: “Mary”
  • German: “Merw”
  • Greek: “Αντιόχεια της Μαργιανήs”
  • Greek: “Μαρί”
  • Greek: “Μαρύ”
  • Gujarati: “મેરી”
  • Hebrew: “מרי”
  • Hindi: “मरी, तुर्कमेनिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “मरी”
  • Hungarian: “Mary”
  • Indonesian: “Mary, Turkmenistan”
  • Irish: “Mary”
  • Italian: “Mary”
  • Japanese: “マル”
  • Kannada: “ಮೇರಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Мары”
  • Kirghiz: “Мары шаары”
  • Korean: “마리”
  • Latin: “Margiana”
  • Latvian: “Mari”
  • Lithuanian: “Maras”
  • Lombard: “Mary”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Mary, Turcmenistan”
  • Malay: “Mary”
  • Malayalam: “മേരി”
  • Maltese: “Mary”
  • Marathi: “मेरी”
  • Mingrelian: “მარი”
  • Moksha: “Мары”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mary (Turkmenistan)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mary”
  • Norwegian: “Mary”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mary”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਰੀ, ਤੁਰਕਮੇਨਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Persian: “ماری”
  • Persian: “مرو”
  • Polish: “Mary”
  • Portuguese: “Mary”
  • Romanian: “Mary”
  • Russian: “Мары”
  • Scots: “Mary, Turkmenistan”
  • Serbian: “Мари”
  • Silesian: “Mary”
  • Sinhala: “මේරි”
  • Slovenian: “Mary”
  • Spanish: “Mary”
  • Swedish: “Mary”
  • Tajik: “Мари”
  • Tajik: “Морӣ”
  • Tamil: “மாரி, துருக்குமனித்தான்”
  • Tamil: “மேரி”
  • Tatar: “Мары”
  • Telugu: “మ్యారి”
  • Thai: “มารี”
  • Thai: “มารือ”
  • Turkish: “Marı”
  • Turkish: “Mary”
  • Turkish: “Merv”
  • Turkmen: “Mary”
  • Ukrainian: “Мари”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерв”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mary”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Merw”
  • Urdu: “ماری، ترکمانستان”
  • Uzbek: “Mari”
  • Venetian: “Mary”
  • Veps: “Mari”
  • Vietnamese: “Mary, Turkmenistan”
  • Vietnamese: “Mary”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mary, Turkmenistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “مرو”
  • Wu Chinese: “马雷 (城市)”
  • Wu Chinese: “马雷（城市）”

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