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Turkmenistan
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Turkmenistan is the southernmost republic of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS--see Glossary), the loose federation created at
the end of 1991 by most of the post-Soviet states. Its longest border is
with the Caspian Sea (1,786 kilometers). The other borders are with Iran
(to the south, 992 kilometers), Afghanistan (to the south, 744
kilometers), Uzbekistan (to the north and east, 1,621 kilometers) and
Kazakstan (to the north, 379 kilometers). Turkmenistan is slightly larger
than California in territory, occupying 488,100 square kilometers. That
statistic ranks Turkmenistan fourth among the former Soviet republics. The
country's greatest extent from west to east is 1,100 kilometers, and its
greatest north-to-south distance is 650 kilometers (see fig. 12).
Data as of March 1996
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