Mary Province
Mary Region is one of five provinces in Turkmenistan. It is located in the south-east of the country, bordering Afghanistan. Its capital is the city of Mary.Photo: Hergit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Mary and Merv.
Mary
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Mary is a city in Mary Province, Turkmenistan. Most travellers' main reason to visit it is to reach the ruins of the ancient city of Merv, which are 35 km to the east.
Merv
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Merv is an old city on the Silk Road 35 km east of the modern city of Mary in the Mary Province of Turkmenistan. There is a state park for the old city center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Bayramaly
Baýramaly is a city in and the seat of Baýramaly District, Mary Province, Turkmenistan. It lies about 27 km east of the provincial capital Mary, along the main railway line from Ashgabat to Tashkent.Destinations to Discover
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Gonur Depe
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Gonur Depe is an archaeological site, dated from 2400 to 1600 BCE, and located about 60 km north of Mary, Turkmenistan consisting of a large early Bronze Age settlement. It is the "capital" or major settlement of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex.
Mary Province
- Type: State with 1,610,000 residents
- Description: region of Turkmenistan
- Also known as: “Mary”, “Mary Oblast”, “Mary Oblasty”, “Mary Region”, “Mary Welaýaty”, “Maryiskaya Oblast”, “Maryyskaya Oblast’”, “Maryyskiy Velayat”, and “Mervskaya Oblast’”
- Neighbors: Ahal Province and Lebap Province
- Categories: region of Turkmenistan and locality
- Location: Turkmenistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
37.1303° or 37° 7′ 49″ northLongitude of center
62.402° or 62° 24′ 7″ eastPopulation
1,610,000Elevation
272 metres (892 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Western Panjabi—“Mary Province” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Wilayah Mary”
- Amharic: “ማሪ”
- Arabic: “ولاية ماري”
- Armenian: “Մարիի վելայաթ”
- Azerbaijani: “Marı vilayəti”
- Azerbaijani: “Mary vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Марый виләйәте”
- Belarusian: “Марыйскі велаят”
- Belarusian: “Марыйскі вэлаят”
- Bengali: “মার্যু বিভাগ”
- Bengali: “মেরি প্রদেশ”
- Bengali: “মেরি”
- Bulgarian: “Мари”
- Catalan: “província de Mary”
- Catalan: “Província de Mary”
- Cebuano: “Mary”
- Chinese: “馬雷州”
- Chinese: “马雷州”
- Crimean Tatar: “Marı vilâyeti”
- Czech: “Mary”
- Czech: “Maryský region”
- Danish: “Mary Province”
- Dimli (individual language): “Merv”
- Dutch: “Mary”
- Esperanto: “Mary welaýaty”
- Esperanto: “provinco Mari”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Mari”
- Esperanto: “provinco Maro”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Mary”
- Estonian: “Marõ oblast”
- Estonian: “Mary vilajett”
- Finnish: “Maryn maakunta”
- French: “Mary”
- Georgian: “მარის ველაიათი”
- German: “Mary welayaty”
- German: “Mary welaýaty”
- Greek: “Μαρύ”
- Gujarati: “મેરી પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Mary”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מרי”
- Hindi: “मरी प्रांत”
- Hindi: “मरी प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “मैरी प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Mary tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Mary”
- Italian: “Mary Welayaty”
- Italian: “provincia di Mary”
- Italian: “Provincia di Mary”
- Japanese: “マリ州”
- Japanese: “マル州”
- Javanese: “Mary”
- Kannada: “ಮೇರಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Mari wa’layati”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Marı wálayatı”
- Kazakh: “Мары уәлаяты”
- Kazakh: “Мары”
- Kirghiz: “Мары вилаяты”
- Kirghiz: “Мары”
- Korean: “마리 주”
- Korean: “마리주”
- Latvian: “Mari vilajets”
- Lithuanian: “Maro velajatas”
- Malay: “Provinsi Mary”
- Malay: “Wilayah Mary”
- Marathi: “मेरी प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “مرو (ولایت)”
- Mazanderani: “مرو”
- Mongolian: “Мары муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Mary”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Mary”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mary provins”
- Oromo: “Mary”
- Panjabi: “ਮੈਰੀ”
- Persian: “استان ماری”
- Persian: “استان مرو”
- Persian: “مرو”
- Persian: “ولایت مرو”
- Polish: “Wilajet maryjski”
- Portuguese: “Mary”
- Pushto: “ماري ولايت”
- Pushto: “مري”
- Romanian: “Provincia Mary”
- Russian: “Марыйская область (с 1992)”
- Russian: “Марыйский велаят”
- Scots: “Mary Province”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Мари”
- Sinhala: “මේරි පළාත”
- Somali: “Mary”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرو اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Mary”
- Swahili: “Mary”
- Swedish: “Mary”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Marj”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Марв”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Марй”
- Tamil: “மாரி மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “மேரி பிராந்தியம்”
- Tamil: “மேரி மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Мары вилаяте”
- Tatar: “Мары”
- Telugu: “మేరా ప్రాంతం”
- Telugu: “మేరా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดมารือ”
- Turkish: “Marı ili”
- Turkish: “Mary vilayeti”
- Turkish: “Mary”
- Turkish: “Merv”
- Turkmen: “Mary welaýaty”
- Uighur: “مارى ۋىلايىتى”
- Ukrainian: “Марийський велаят”
- Urdu: “صوبہ ماری”
- Uzbek: “Mari viloyati”
- Uzbek: “Мари вилояти”
- Uzbek: “Марыйский велаят”
- Vietnamese: “Mary”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Mary”
- Western Armenian: “Մարիի նահանգ”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ مرو”
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