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Balkanabat
Sign in to saveBalkanabat (), formerly Nebit-Dag and Neftedag, is the administrative centre of Balkan Province, the largest province in Turkmenistan. It lies at the foot of the Balkan Daglary mountain range. Balkanabat is about 450 km west of Ashgabat and 160 km east of the seaport city of Türkmenbaşy. The city layout is a grid of apartment blocks called kvartal (quarters). The main streets are Magtymguly, Pervomayskiy and Gurbansoltan eje şaýoly.
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Balkanabat is a city in Turkmenistan that serves as the capital of Balkan Province. Established in 1933, it is located in the time zone UTC+05:00. The city has a population of 139,000, with an elevation above sea level of 17 meters. Its official name is also listed as Балканабад and Небит-Даг, and Turkmen is the official language.
The city’s postal code is 745100, and it uses the local dialing code 993 222. The license plate code for the area is BN. Balkanabat is the owner of Balkanabat Stadium.
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Place details
- Locality
- Balkanabat
- Region
- Balkan welaýaty
- Country
- Türkmenistan
- Population
- 87,822
- Timezone
- Asia/Ashgabat
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.other_name
- Balkanabat şäheri
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Turkmenistan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Turkmenistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Turkmenistan
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Balkan Province
- Settlement.established_date
- 1933
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Balkan Gulmamedov
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 11,290
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025 estimate
- Settlement.population_total
- 87,822
- Settlement.registration_plate
- BN
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +5
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
Balkanabat may serve as a stopover on the trip from Ashgabat to Turkmenbashi and as starting point for excursions to Dehistan and the Yangykala Canyon.
Get around
thumb|upright=1.5|Balkanabat Airport
Do
thumb|upright=1.3|Monument to Saparmurat Niyazov
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Administrative Subdivisions
- History
- Amenities
- Demographics
- Climate
- Industry, economy and transport
- Transport
- Air
- Rail
- Communication
- Education
- Religion
- Culture
- Notable people
- Media
- Twin towns and sister cities
- Sports
- See also
- References
Balkanabat (), formerly Nebit-Dag and Neftedag, is the administrative centre of Balkan Province, the largest province in Turkmenistan. It lies at the foot of the Balkan Daglary mountain range. Balkanabat is about 450 km west of Ashgabat and 160 km east of the seaport city of Türkmenbaşy. The city layout is a grid of apartment blocks called kvartal (quarters). The main streets are Magtymguly, Pervomayskiy and Gurbansoltan eje şaýoly.
==Etymology== The town was founded in 1933 as Neftedag, meaning "Oil Mountain" (Russian neft, "oil", and Turkmen dag, "mountain"), as a settlement along one of the stations of the Trans-Caspian Railway. In 1946, when it was transformed into a city, it was renamed "Nebit-Dag", also meaning "Oil Mountain", but this time using the Turkmen word nebit. Nebit Dag was renamed Balkanabat (Balkan from the name of the Balkan mountains (not to be confused with the Balkan mountains in Bulgaria), abat – meaning “settlement” in Persian) in 2001 by decree of former President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balkanabat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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