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Turkmenistan Education
It is one
of the driest deserts in the world, some places have an
average annual precipitation of only 12 mm. The highest
temperature recorded in Ashgabat is 48.0 C and Kerki,
an extreme inland city located on the banks of the Amu
Darya river, recorded 51.7 C in July 1983, although
this value is unofficial. 50.1C is the highest
temperature recorded at Repetek Re serve, recognized as
the highest temperature ever recorded in the whole
former Soviet Union.
Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan (per
the 1992 Constitution), although Russian still is widely
spoken in cities as a "language of inter-ethnic
communication". Turkmen is spoken by 72% of the
population, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, and other languages
7%. The Manat is the currency of
Turkmenistan. It was introduced on November 1, 1993,
replacing the Russian ruble at a rate of 1 manat = 500
ruble. The ISO 4217 code is TMM and the manat is
subdivided into 100 tennesi. The abbreviation m is
sometimes used, e.g., 25 000 m is twenty-five thousand
manat. The population of Turkmenistan in 2003
was estimated by the United Nations at 4, 867, 000, which
placed it as number 113 in population among the 193
nations of the world. In that year approximately 4% of
the population was over 65 years of age, with another
38% of the population under 15 years of age. Ashgabat is the capital and largest city
of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia.
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