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Balkan Province

Turkmenbashi

Turkmenbashi, formerly known as Krasnovodsk, is a beautiful coastal city of 68,000 people on the Caspian Sea in . It serves as 's main access to the sea and has much of the country's oil refineries.
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  • Type: City with 73,800 residents
  • Description: city in Turkmenistan
  • Also known as: “Krasnovodsk”, “Krassnowodsk”, “Kyzyl-Su”, “Şagadam”, “Shagadam”, “Tuerkmenbasy”, “Turkmenbashy”, “Türkmenbashy”, “Türkmenbaşy”, “Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan”, and “Түркменбашы”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shagadam and Turkmenbashy International Seaport.

Stadium
Photo: Yomut, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stadium is a in Turkmenbashi, . It is currently used mostly for Ýokary Liga football matches and serves as the home for Şagadam Türkmenbaşy. The stadium originally had natural grass and capacity for 1,500 peoples.

Photo: Bayram A, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Türkmenbaşy International Seaport is the main passenger harbour and cargo port in Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan. It is located in the eastern part of the Caspian Sea.

Turkmenbashi

Latitude
40.0053° or 40° 0′ 19″ north
Longitude
52.9929° or 52° 59′ 34″ east
Population
73,800
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
KRW
United Nations Location Codes
TM KRA and TM KRW
Open location code
8HGJ2X4V+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 98072410
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
601594
Wiki­data ID
Q488987
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Turkmenbashi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تركمان باشي”
  • Arabic: “تركمانباشي”
  • Armenian: “Թուրքմենբաշի”
  • Asturian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Türkmənbaşı”
  • Bashkir: “Төркмәнбашы”
  • Basque: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Belarusian: “Краснаводск”
  • Belarusian: “Туркменбашы”
  • Belarusian: “Туркмэнбашы”
  • Bulgarian: “Туркменбаши”
  • Catalan: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Catalan: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Cebuano: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Chechen: “Туркменбаши (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Туркменбаши”
  • Chinese: “克拉斯诺沃德斯克”
  • Chinese: “克拉斯諾沃茨克”
  • Chinese: “土库曼巴希”
  • Chinese: “土庫曼巴希”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Türkmenbaşı (şeer)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Türkmenbaşı”
  • Czech: “Turkmenbaši”
  • Danish: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Dutch: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Dutch: “Turkmenbashi”
  • Dutch: “Turkmenbasy”
  • Dutch: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Eastern Mari: “Туркменбаши”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تركمانباشى”
  • Esperanto: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Estonian: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Estonian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Finnish: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Finnish: “Turkmenbashi”
  • Finnish: “Turkmenbaši”
  • Finnish: “Türkmenbasy”
  • Finnish: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • French: “Krasnovodsk”
  • French: “Turkmenbachi”
  • French: “Turkmenbasy”
  • French: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Georgian: “თურქმენბაში”
  • German: “Krasnovodsk”
  • German: “Krasnowodsk”
  • German: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Greek: “Τουρκμένμπασι”
  • Hebrew: “טורקמנבאשי”
  • Hungarian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Indonesian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Irish: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Italian: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Italian: “Turkmenbashi”
  • Italian: “Turkmenbasy”
  • Italian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Japanese: “クラスノボツク”
  • Japanese: “トルクメンバシ (都市)”
  • Japanese: “トルクメンバシ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tu’rkmenbashi‘”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Turkmenbashi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Túrkmenbashı”
  • Kazakh: “Түрікменбашы (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Түрікменбашы”
  • Korean: “크라스노보츠크”
  • Korean: “크라스노봇스크”
  • Korean: “투르크멘바시”
  • Latin: “Dauaba”
  • Latvian: “Turkmenbaši (pilsēta)”
  • Latvian: “Turkmenbaši”
  • Lithuanian: “Krasnovodskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiurkmenbaši”
  • Lithuanian: “Turkmenbašis”
  • Lithuanian: “Turkmėnbašis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Malagasy: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Mingrelian: “თურქმენბაში”
  • Moksha: “Туркмэнбашы”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Norwegian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Persian: “ترکمن باشی”
  • Persian: “ترکمن‌باشی”
  • Persian: “قزل سو”
  • Persian: “کراسنودسک”
  • Persian: “کراسنوودسک”
  • Polish: “Krasnowodsk”
  • Polish: “Krasnowodzk”
  • Polish: “Türkmenbaşi”
  • Polish: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Polish: “Turkmenbaszi”
  • Polish: “Türkmenbaszi”
  • Polish: “Turkmenbaszy”
  • Polish: “Türkmenbaszy”
  • Portuguese: “Turkmenbachi”
  • Portuguese: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Romanian: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Romanian: “Turkmenbaşî”
  • Romanian: “Turkmenbașî”
  • Romanian: “Türkmenbaşî”
  • Romanian: “Türkmenbașî”
  • Romanian: “Turkmenbasy”
  • Romanian: “Turkmenbaşy”
  • Romanian: “Turkmenbașy”
  • Romanian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Romanian: “Türkmenbașy”
  • Russian: “Красноводск” (historical)
  • Russian: “Туркменбаши”
  • Russian: “Туркменбашы”
  • Scots: “Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan”
  • Scots: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Serbian: “Туркменбаши”
  • Silesian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Spanish: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Spanish: “Turkmenbashi Turkmenistan”
  • Spanish: “Turkmenbashi Turkmenistán”
  • Spanish: “Turkmenbashi”
  • Spanish: “Turkmenbasy”
  • Spanish: “Turkmenbaşy”
  • Spanish: “Türkmenbasy”
  • Spanish: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Sundanese: “Türkmenbaşy, Turkménistan”
  • Sundanese: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Swedish: “Krasnovodsk”
  • Swedish: “Krasnowodsk”
  • Swedish: “Turkmenbasji”
  • Swedish: “Turkmenbasjy”
  • Swedish: “Turkmenbasy”
  • Swedish: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Tajik: “Туркманбошӣ”
  • Tatar: “Төрекмәнбашы”
  • Turkish: “Türkmenbaşı”
  • Turkmen: “Krasnowodsk”
  • Turkmen: “Türkmenbaşy şäheri”
  • Turkmen: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Ukrainian: “Красноводськ”
  • Ukrainian: “Туркменбаші”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Krasnowodsk”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Turkmenbašy”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Urdu: “ترکمنباشی، ترکمانستان”
  • Uzbek: “Turkmanboshi”
  • Uzbek: “Туркманбоши”
  • Uzbek: “Туркменбашы”
  • Veps: “Turkmenbaši”
  • Vietnamese: “Türkmenbaşy”
  • Western Panjabi: “ترکمان باشی”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Turkmenbashi”. Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.