Ashgabat
About Ashgabat
Ashgabat is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Köpetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border. The city has a population of 1,030,063.
On the show — 3 mentions total
The building that's shaped like a book is called the House of Free Creativity in Ashgabat, and it was opened in 2006 under the previous rule of Sapa Murat Niyazov.
from 69: No Such Thing As The Pamplona Guinea Pig Run, 2015-07-10 at 00:17:36 · read transcript
Other times Ashgabat came up
Wow you'd be too scared to take her on Another one I was reading about was the first female steward in the Soviet Union called Elsa Garudyetskaya and she flew from Moscow to Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and it took 13 hours and if you went by train it would take 129 hours and 30 minutes so the flights were really important in the Soviet Union because these places are so far apart and the best version.
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Coordinates: 37.9375, 58.3800