I have assigned 198 countries a number. The countries I've chosen are the 193 members of the UN plus those recognised by at least 20 UN members. Each week I will pick a country using a random number generator and we will discuss that country.

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Country of the Week for Week 16: Turkmenistan

Population: 5.2M

Location:


Flag:

Nothing that really stands out.

Is named after the latin word for turkey: "Turci".

Czcwtrchaworlzdskystan (Polandistan in Polish)

I don't think this is going to get as many replies as last week.

Surprisingly, me neither.

^^
Maybe because, we always get the smallest and the least known countries on earth. No wonder people know nothing about them.

Edited 1/21/2016 23:10:43

The wallflower of Asia...

It borders one of the two double-landlocked countries in the world, Uzbekistan (the other one being Liechtenstein!!)

Famous for being extremely boring.

Ox, I didnt understand by what you mean "double-landlocked Uzbekistan" ?

The people throughout Central Asia have an honest culture of Muslims with a hospitable spirit. They are giving, compassionate and typically they are rural. Very few cities, but lot of them pretty big. Nice countryside.

I think he means that Uzbekistan is also cut off from the nearby inland Caspian Sea as well as the ocean.

Edit: just googled it and a doubly landlocked country is one surrounded entirely by landlocked country/ies.

Edited 1/22/2016 06:04:47

@SVY, ah, got it. Wikipedia explain it in a good way

Edited 1/22/2016 09:46:21

Flag looks like a Islamic Belarus.

Edited 1/22/2016 16:10:07

^ tru dat

Part of both Persian empires.