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Mary is a city in Turkmenistan, serving as the capital of the Mary Region. It is situated along the Marghab River at an elevation of 223 meters above sea level. The city was established in 1884 and has a population of 208,697. Its official name is listed as Мерв, Мары, and it uses the postal code 745400.
The city is twinned with Jeddah, Istanbul, and Samarkand. Mary is the owner of Mary Stadium and is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. The local timezone is Asia/Ashgabat, and the license plate code for the area is MR.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mary şäheri
- Region
- Mary welaýaty
- Country
- Türkmenistan
- Population
- 167,027
- Timezone
- Asia/Ashgabat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Мары
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Population
- 208697
- Elevation
- 223
- Body of water
- Marghab River
- Image
- Mary with Hajji Gurbanguly Mosque (31161481347).jpg
- Licence plate code
- MR
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- Commons category
- Mary, Turkmenistan
- twinned administrative body
- Samarkand
- category for people born here
- Q8062741
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Mary, Turkmenistan
- topic's main category
- Category:Mary, Turkmenistan
- postal code
- 745400
- inception
- 1884-00-00
- native label
- Mary
- owner of
- Mary Stadium
- P12749
- Tübingen District
- different from
- Merv
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary ( Turkmen pronunciation: [mɑˈɾɯ]) is a city on an oasis in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, located on the Murgab River. It was founded in 1884 about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the ruins of the ancient abandoned great city of Merv and was actually named Merv until 1937.
Mary is the capital city of Mary Region. In 2022, Mary had a population of 167,027, up from 92,000 in the 1989 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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