Balkan Province

Balkan Province is the Western region of Turkmenistan, spanning the Western Karakum and much of the Caspian Basin. }}

Cities

Balkanabat an oil and gas center at the foot of the Balkan Daglary mountains.
Bereket (formerly Gazandzhyk) a railway town.
Esenguly a small remote at the southwest of the region on the Caspian Sea.
Garabogaz a town at the narrow strait separating the gigantic Garabogaz Lagoon from the Caspian Sea.
Gyzyletrek a small border town on a rarely traveled road to Gorgan, Iran.
Gumdag small railway town.
Serdar a medium-sized city northwest of Ashgabat.
Turkmenbashi

Turkmenistan's port on the Caspian, with a few beach hotels.

Dakhistan — the ruins of an impossibly remote Silk Road city, home to Shir-Kabir mausoleum.