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Noun: Turkmenistan  ,turk,me-ni'stan or turk,me-ni'staan
  1. A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
    - Turkomen, Turkmen, Turkmenia

Type of: country, land, state

Part of: Asia, CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States

Encyclopedia: Turkmenistan