Hora Atual em Türkmenbaşy, Turcomenistão — TMT.

Türkmenbaşy, previously known as Shagadam, Krasnovodsk and Kyzyl-Su, is a major port city in Balkan Province in western Turkmenistan, on the Türkmenbaşy Gulf of the Caspian Sea. It sits at an elevation of 27 metres. The population was 86,800, consisting of mostly ethnic Turkmens, with the addition of Russian, Armenian and Azeri minorities. As the terminus of the Trans-Caspian Railway and site of a major seaport on the Caspian, it is an important transportation center. The city is also the site of Turkmenistan's largest oil refining complex.

Reading Türkmenbaşy against the global hubs: Dubai (~1,662 km), London (~4,209 km), Singapore (~6,684 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~12,979 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.

Türkmenbaşy sits inside Turcomenistão — the Central Asia subregion, capital Ashgabat, languages Russian, Turkmen, currency TMT (m).

The closest mapped neighbors of Türkmenbaşy are Jebel (117 km), Balkanabat (133 km), Gumdag (167 km), Bereket (236 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.

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