Turkmenistan
Central Asia · Ashgabat
Everything Mapfold knows about Turkmenistan, and the 5 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Turkmenistan in figures
- Capital
- Ashgabat
- Region
- Central Asia
- Area
- 488,100 km²
- Population
- 7,618,847
- Density
- 15.6 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 4
- Coast
- Landlocked
- Highest point
- 3,139 m
- Mean temperature
- 16.7 °C
- Life expectancy
- 70.2 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 6,540
- Urban
- 47.1 %
- Forest
- 8.8 %
Turkmenistan in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Turkmenistan answers to it. This is not a fact about Turkmenistan so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Turkmenistan
5 answers are enough to leave Turkmenistan alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It is landlocked.
43 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It is in Asia.
12 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
6 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 4
It averages over 12 °C all year.
2 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 5
It averages cooler than 22 °C all year.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Turkmenistan unusual
It is landlocked.
43 of 192 countriesIt is in Asia.
46 of 192 countriesIt lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- BORDERS
It is landlocked.
43 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Asia.
46 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
59 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages cooler than 22 °C all year.
88 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is below 75.
107 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 100,000 km².
107 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $12,000.
114 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
119 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
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