Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital city of the Central Asian Turkic state of Turkmenistan.
Specifically, Ashgabat is located in Ahal Province. It shares its importance in that province with Anau (Änew), which is the province's capital city. It started out as a village founded by Russians in 1881. In fact, it temporarily was named Poltoratsk during the period 1919-1927. Under the Soviets, the name of the city was Ashkhadbad before being named Ashgabat under the independent Turkmenistani government.
Nigeria Depends on the area you consider as 'West Africa'. Mauritania is marginally bigger than Nigeria, and if you are prepared to consider non-coastal countries, Mali is even bigger. Look at a maqp of Africa and find out what you consider as 'West Africa'.
According to the US Geological Survey report (see link below) the United States had been the leading producer/exporter of phosphate until 2005 when surpassed by China, who has held the lead. The list of leading producers/exporters in order of production as if 2006 are:
China
United States
Morocco
Russia
Tunisia
Brazil
Syria
Israel
Egypt
South Africa
For more recent or comprehensive reports, see the link below for the USGS Phosphate Rock Statistics and Information.
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See link below. maps-greater-israel -and-shrinking-map-of-palestine: http://tinyurl.com/cgujms
Damascus is the capital of Syria.
Moscow is the capital of Russia. Dublin is the capital of Ireland.
Baltic State Technical University was created in 1871.
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Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan.
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