Balkan Province
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Balkan Province is the western region of Turkmenistan, spanning the western Karakum and much of the Caspian Basin.Cities
- — an oil and gas center at the foot of the Balkan Daglary mountains.
- — (formerly Gazandzhyk) a railway town.
- — a small remote at the southwest of the region on the Caspian Sea.
- — a town at the narrow strait separating the gigantic Garabogaz Lagoon from the Caspian Sea.
- — a small border town on a rarely traveled road to Gorgan, Iran.
- — small railway town.
- — a medium-sized city northwest of Ashgabat.
- — Turkmenistan's port on the Caspian, with a few beach hotels.
Other destinations
- — the ruins of an impossibly remote Silk Road city, home to Shir-Kabir mausoleum.