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	Turkmenistan - MSN Encarta
		The entire central part of the country is occupied by one of the largest sand deserts in the world, the Garagum.
		Water from the Amu Darya and the Murgap is diverted into the Garagum Canal (built during the Soviet period) to supply water to the arid southern portions of Turkmenistan.
		In the desert, gazelles, foxes, and wildcats thrive.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555783/Turkmenistan.html (558 words)

	Turkmenistan
		Turkmenistan's terrain consists largely of plains, nearly all of which are occupied by the Garagum Desert and its oases.
		Mountain runoff is slight and quickly dissipates in the desert.
		The Garagum Canal, which diverts water from the Amu Darya to the southern portions of the country, is the longest canal in the former USSR and one of the longest in the world.
	www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/tm.html (498 words)

	Turkmenistan
		90% of the country is covered by the Kara Kum desert.
		The center of country dominated by Turan Depression and Garagum Desert, flatlands of which occupy nearly 80 percent of country's area.
		The climate is subtropical, desert, and severely continental, with little rainfall.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Turkmenistan.html (550 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kara Kum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		KARA KUM [Kara Kum], two deserts, one in Kazakhstan and one in Turkmenistan.
		The Caspian Kara Kum or Garagum, the larger desert (c.115,000 sq mi/297,900 sq km), is W of the Amu Darya River and includes most of Turkmenistan.
		The Trans-Caspian RR, a leading transportation artery of Central Asia, crosses the desert from Turkmenbashi (Krasnovodsk), on the Caspian Sea, to Ashgabat, Mary, Bukhara, and Tashkent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KaraKum.asp (387 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Geography - note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of Equator
		landlocked; one of the hottest countries in the world: northern four-fifths is desert, southern one-fifth is savanna, suitable for livestock and limited agriculture
		landlocked; the western and central low-lying, desolate portions of the country make up the great Garagum (Kara-Kum) desert, which occupies over 80% of the country; eastern part is plateau
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2113.html (5005 words)

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