Turkmenistan - English Version

Turkmenistan is located northeast of Iran, on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea, and is one of the republics born after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. A good part of the territory corresponds to the barren desert plain of the Karakum; the economy of the country is based on the cultivation of cotton and the exploitation of the hydrocarbon resources (natural gas and in a lesser way oil) of the subsoil.