Turkmenistan
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Turkmenistan is an authoritarian Central Asian country rich in hydrocarbons that borders the Caspian Sea and four other countries, including Afghanistan and Iran.
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Turkmenistan, second largest country of Central Asia. Though long home to the Turkmens, a nomadic Turkic people, the area did not become a political unit in its own right
Turkmenistan gained its independence in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Primarily a desert country, it has a population of around six million people.
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