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Regional Information

Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Kazakhstan

Capital City

Ashgabat (Ashkhabad)
Regional Relationships

Cotton monoculture in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan creates water-sharing difficulties for Amu Darya river states; field demarcation of the boundaries with Kazakhstan commenced in 2005, but Caspian seabed delimitation remains stalled with Azerbaijan, Iran, and Kazakhstan due to Turkmenistan's indecision over how to allocate the sea's waters and seabed.
Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements

Challenges

Contamination of soil and groundwater with agricultural chemicals, pesticides; salination, water logging of soil due to poor irrigation methods; Caspian Sea pollution; diversion of a large share of the flow of the Amu Darya into irrigation contributes to that river's inability to replenish the Aral Sea; desertification

International Agreements

Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Humanitarian Projects
Native Languages

Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7%
Climate

Subtropical desert