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Ashgabat is Turkmenistan’s white marble city of love

Ashgabat is an amazing city with gleaming gold domes, extravagant white marble palaces and picturesque well-tended vast green parks situated in the middle of an oasis at the foot of the Kopet-Dag mountain range and the Kara-kum black sand Desert.

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