Ak-Altyn
Encyclopedia
Ak-Altyn is a town
in northern Turkmenistan
near the border with Uzbekistan
. It is located in Daşoguz Province.
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
in northern Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
near the border with Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
. It is located in Daşoguz Province.
External links
- Satellite map at Maplandia.com
- http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=36.7535757729188&TextLongitude=60.4742490244828&TextAltitude=7&TextSelectedEntity=7442353&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=Ak-Altyn&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=36.7535757729188%3B60.4742490244828%3B7%3B7442353%3BAkhchadepe%2C+Turkmenistan%3BLarge%3BComprehensiveLocation on MSN encarta map]