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Ashgabat Zoo

Gökdepe District, Turkmenistan

The National Museum of Wildlife (Turkmen: Janly tebigatyň milli muzeýi), commonly known in English as Ashgabat Zoo (Turkmen: Aşgabat haýwanat bagy), is a zoological garden—zoo—located in the locality of Gökdere, Gökdepe District, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan, just west of the capital Ashgabat. It covers an area of roughly 40 hectares (99 acres) and houses over 250 species. It is administered by the Ministry of Nature Protection, a sub-ministry of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan.

Zoo data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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