Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $6.0 billion, 4%
of GDP (1995); note - figures do not include about $7 billion for
the government's counterinsurgency effort against the separatist
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
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@Turkmenistan ——————
Map —-
Location: 40 00 N, 60 00 E — Central Asia, bordering the Caspian
Sea, between Iran and Kazakstan
Flag ——
Description: green field, including a vertical stripe on the hoist side, with a claret vertical stripe in between containing five white, black, and orange carpet guls (an asymmetrical design used in producing rugs) associated with five different tribes; a white crescent and five white stars in the upper left corner to the right of the carpet guls
Geography ————-
Location: Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran
and Kazakstan
Geographic coordinates: 40 00 N, 60 00 E