Gyzylarbat

Gyzylarbat
Kyzyl-Arvat (1881-1992) Кызыл-Арват (in Russian)
Gyzylarbat (1992-1999)
Serdar 1999-2022
Gyzylarbat is located in Turkmenistan
Gyzylarbat
Gyzylarbat
Location in Turkmenistan
Coordinates: 38°59′N 56°17′E / 38.983°N 56.283°E / 38.983; 56.283
Country Turkmenistan
ProvinceBalkan Province
DistrictGyzylarbat District
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
89,582
Area code+993 246

Gyzylarbat (formerly Serdar and Kyzyl-Arvat or Gyzylarbat[2] and Farāva[3]) is a city subordinate to a district in Turkmenistan, located north-west of the capital, Ashgabat on the M37 highway to the Caspian Sea. The population of Gyzylarbat is 50,000 people, mainly Turkmen. The main language spoken in the region is Turkmen. It is near the northwest end of the line of oases on the north slope of the Kopet Dag that extends southeast to Ashgabat.[4][5]

  1. ^ Population of Serdar, all-populations.com (in Russian), retrieved 12 February 2022.
  2. ^ Kyzyl-Arvat as the former name
  3. ^ "Farāva". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  4. ^ Turkmenistan Geoname Changes/List of Current Names of Municipalities and Their Former Names/Cities with District Status
  5. ^ "Постановление Меджлиса Милли Генгеша Туркменистана" (in Russian). Электронная газета «Золотой век». 10 November 2022.