Area 488,100 sq km (188,455 sq mi)
Poplation 4,776,000
Capital city Ashkhabad (521,000)
Government Single-party republic
Ethnicity Groups: Turkmen 85%, Uzbek 5%, Russian 4%, others
Language Turkmen (official), Russian, Uzbek, others
Religions Islam 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%
Currency Turkmen manat = 100 tenesi

The Republic of Turkmenistan is one of the five central Asian republics which once formed part of the former Soviet Union.

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