Map of Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 40.0° N, 60.0° E. Turkmenistan is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Turkmenistan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Turkmenistan is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Turkmenistan covers about 488,100 km² (188,456 sq mi). That makes it the 52nd-largest country in the world by area and the 14th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 35 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 7,057,841, the 106th-largest in the world and the 34th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Turkmenistan has an average population density of about 14 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 34th by population and 14th by area.

The seat of government is Ashgabat, and the official currency is the Turkmenistan manat (TMT, m), and the main official languages are Russian and Turkmen. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:00.

Turkmenistan carries the ISO country codes TM and TKM, dials on the international calling code +993 and uses the .tm internet domain.

Turkmenistan shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Iran (capital Tehran, about 85,961,000 people), Afghanistan (capital Kabul, about 43,844,000 people), Uzbekistan (capital Tashkent, about 37,859,698 people) and Kazakhstan (capital Astana, about 20,426,568 people).

By area, Turkmenistan is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 40.0° N, 60.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Turkmenistan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ashgabat. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Turkmenistan lies about 4,440 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Turkmenistan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Turkmenistan manat (TMT, m).

The official languages are Russian and Turkmen, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +993 and websites commonly use the .tm internet domain.

In short, Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Ashgabat. Turkmenistan has a population of about 7,057,841 and covers around 488,100 km² (188,456 sq mi), ranking it 106th in the world by population and 52nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Turkmenistan.

The flag of Turkmenistan has a green field. It features a red vertical band, bearing five carpet guls stacked above two crossed olive branches, near the hoist end of the field. Just to the fly side of the vertical band near the top edge of the field is a hoist-side facing white crescent and five small five-pointed white stars placed just outside the crescent opening.

The flag of Turkmenistan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.