Karakum
Karakum may refer to: *Karakum Desert, a desert in Central Asia * ''Karakum'' (film), a 1994 Turkmen film *Karakum Canal, Turkmenistan *Karakum District, Turkmenistan See also * Karakoram, a large mountain range spanning the borders of India, Pakistan and China * Karakorum Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, ''Kharkhorum''; Mongolian Script:, ''Qaraqorum''; ) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the 14–15th centuries. Its ruins lie in the ...

Karakum Desert
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum ( tk, Garagum, ; rus, Караку́мы, Karakumy, kərɐˈkumɨ), is a desert in Central Asia. Its name in Turkic languages means "black sand": "" means sand; "" is a contraction of : "dark" or may pre-date that (be a derivation from a likely broader meaning which the word for black bore: ) in this language family. This refers to the shale-rich sand generally beneath the sand of much of the desert. It occupies about 70 percent, , of Turkmenistan. The population is sparse, with an average of one person per . Rainfall is also rare, ranging from per year. Geography The desert covers roughly seventy percent of Turkmenistan, a long east–west swath. It sits east of the Caspian Sea which has a steep east bank. It adjoins, to the north, the long delta feeding the South Aral Sea further north, another endorheic lake, about higher than the Caspian Sea. The delta is that of the Amu Darya river to the northeast, demarcating the ...
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Karakum (film)
Karakum (1994) is a Turkmen and German adventure film directed by and Uzmaan Saparov and produced by Ottokar Runze. The story of the film was written by Arend Agthe and Uzmaan Saparov. Plot From Hamburg to Turkmenistan: Robert, a 13-year-old German boy, is on his way to visit his father, who works as an engineer in the Karakum desert. After arriving at the airport, he gets taken there by the truck driver Pjotr. They are joined by Pjotr's nephew Murad, who is on his way to a distant oasis. But during the trip through the desert some things go wrong and the truck gets stuck. While Pjotr sets off to find water, the two boys are waiting in the heat. When Pjotr doesn't return, Robert, a sailing aficionado, has the idea to build a sand sailing rig from parts that are on the truck. Soon, they are off to an adventurous sailing tour through the desert, united — despite cultural differences — by their inventive genius and plenty of youthful thirst for adventure. Cast * Max Kullmann a ...
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Karakum Canal
The Karakum Canal (Qaraqum Canal, Kara Kum Canal, Garagum Canal; russian: Каракумский канал, ''Karakumskiy Kanal'', tk, Garagum kanaly, , ) in Turkmenistan is one of the largest irrigation and water supply canals in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it is navigable over much of its length, and carries of water annually from the Amu-Darya River across the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. The canal opened up huge new tracts of land to agriculture, especially to cotton monoculture heavily promoted by the Soviet Union, and supplying Ashgabat with a major source of water. The canal is also a major factor leading to the Aral Sea environmental disaster. The Soviet regime planned to at some time extend the canal to the Caspian Sea. History The current Karakum Canal was not the first major attempt to bring the Amu-Darya water to the Karakums. In the early 1950s, construction began on the Main Turkmen Canal (russian: Главный Туркменский ...
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Karakum District
Karakum District or Garagum District tk, Garagum etraby is a district of Mary Province in Turkmenistan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Karakum. It is formed in 1978 as Karakum Raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ... (russian: Каракумский район) and was renamed to its current name in 1992. {{coord missing, Turkmenistan Districts of Turkmenistan Mary Region ...
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Karakoram
The Karakoram is a mountain range in Kashmir region spanning the borders of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Most of the Karakoram mountain range falls under the jurisdiction of Gilgit-Baltistan, which is controlled by Pakistan. Its highest peak (and List of highest mountains on Earth#List of world's highest peaks, world's second-highest), K2, is located in Gilgit-Baltistan. It begins in the Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan) in the west, encompasses the majority of Gilgit-Baltistan, and extends into Ladakh (controlled by India) and Aksai Chin (controlled by China). It is the Greater Ranges, second-highest mountain range in the world and part of the complex of ranges including the Pamir Mountains, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas, Himalayan Mountains. The Karakoram has eighteen summits over in height, with four exceeding : K2, the second-highest peak in the world at , Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak and Gashe ...
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