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Area: Total: 488,100 sq km
water: 0 sq km
land: 488,100 sq km
Land use:
arable land: 4%
permanent crops: 0%
other: 96% (1998 est.)
Irrigated land: 18,000 sq km (1998 est.)
Terrain: Flat-to-rolling
sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south; low mountains
along border with Iran; borders Caspian Sea in west
Elevation extremes: Highest point: Gora (mountain) Ayribaba 3,139 m Lowest point: Vpadina (gully) Akchanaya -81 m.
Note! Sarygamysh Koli is a lake in northern Turkmenistan with a water level that
fluctuates above and below the elevation of Vpadina Akchanaya (the lake
has dropped as low as -110 m)
Landlocked; the western and central low-lying, desolate portions of the country make
up the great Garagum (Kara-Kum) desert, which occupies over 80% of the
country; eastern part is plateau.
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