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The Kara-Kum (Garagum, “Black Sand)” covers 80 percent of Turkmenistan - the western and central low-lying desolate portions of the country - and is mostly uninhabited. With the exception of mountains in the east, Turkmenistan is mostly flat and arid and covered by plains, desert, rolling hills and dry steppe. Occupying 2.2 percent of the former Soviet Union, it ranks fourth among the former Soviet republics in terms of size. Landlocked with a shore on the Caspain Sea, it is the second largest Central Asian nation republic after Kazakhstan, one of the southernmost former Soviet republics and one of the most sparely population nations in the world. Turkmenistan covers 488,100 square kilometers (188,456 square miles), making it slightly larger than California, or France. Located in southwestern Central Asia and bordered by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the north and northeast, the Caspian Sea to the west, and Iran in the south.
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