Amu Dar'ya ( tk, Amyderýa) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Köýtendag District Köýtendag District (formerly Çarşaňňy District) is a district of Lebap Province in Turkmenistan. The administrative center of the district is the city of Köýtendag. History Formed in August 1926 as Charshangi in the then-region of Kerk ...

Lebap Province Lebap Region ( tk, Lebap welaýaty/Лебап велаяты from the Persian language, Persian ''Lab-e āb'') is one of the regions of Turkmenistan. It is in the northeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan, Uzbekistan along the Amu Darya ...

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

, on the river of the same name opposite the town of

Kerki Kerki is a city in and capital of Kerki District, Lebap Province, Turkmenistan. It was formerly known as Zamm and, between 1999 and 2017, as Atamyrat. Geography It is situated on a plain on the left bank of the Amu Darya river. Nearby towns a ...

. As of 1989, it had a population of 5,018.

Geography

Amu Dar'ya is located at an elevation of 265 meters on the banks of the Amu-Darya River.

Notable people

* Recep Bazarov (born 1958), Turkmen statesman and politician

Transportation

Amu Dar'ya is on a branch of the

Trans-Caspian railway The Trans-Caspian Railway (also called the Central Asian Railway, russian: Среднеазиатская железная дорога) is a railway that follows the path of the Silk Road through much of western Central Asia. It was built by ...

that leads from

Samarqand fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top: Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zin ...

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

, through the far east of Turkmenistan, and then back to

Termez Termez ( uz, Termiz/Термиз; fa, ترمذ ''Termez, Tirmiz''; ar, ترمذ ''Tirmidh''; russian: Термез; Ancient Greek: ''Tàrmita'', ''Thàrmis'', ) is the capital of Surxondaryo Region in southern Uzbekistan. Administratively, it i ...

in Uzbekistan and finally

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

. Amu Dar'ya is one of three major stations on this line in Turkmenistan, along with Köýtendag and Kelif. The P-39 highway connects the city to

across the Amu-Darya river by the Atamyrat-Kerkichi Bridge constructed Ukrainian builders.Президенты Туркменистана и Украины приняли участие в церемонии ввода и закладки важных объектов в Лебапском велаяте
/ref> The P-37 highway connects the town to the nearby municipalities of Kerkichi and Dostluk, and farther east to Köýtendag and the border with

. The P-89 highway leads north to the Uzbek border town of Tallimarjon.

References

Populated places in Lebap Region {{Turkmenistan-geo-stub