NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Transcaspian

Transcaspia is an area of steppes and deserts (like Kara Kum) in Central Asia, between the Caspian Sea in the west, the Aral Sea in the north, the Amu Darya river in the north-east, and the Alborz and Hindu Kush mountains in the south.

The area more or less corresponds with the modern state of Turkmenistan. The adjective form is Transcaspian.

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Transcaspian Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1145 words)
	Transcaspian Region, a 1911 Russian territory to the east of the Caspian Sea, bounded south by Khorasan and Afghanistan, north by the former Russian province of Uralsk, northeast by Khiva and Bokhara and southeast by Afghan Turkestan.
	A mountain chain, comparable in length to the Alps, separates the deserts of the Transcaspian from the highlands of Khorasan.
	It begins in the Krasnovodsk peninsula of the Caspian, under the names of Kuryanyn-kary and Great Balkans, whose masses of granite and other crystalline rock reach an altitude of some 5350 feet.

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