Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmen, Turkmenia

a republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian Soviet from 1925 to 1991

• country, state, land — the territory occupied by a nation

• Ashkhabad, capital of Turkmenistan — the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan

• Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS — an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

• Asia — the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations