This document provides information about Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Turkmenistan has an area of 490,200 sq km and a population of over 5 million people. Its capital is Ashgabat and its main language is Turkmen. Azerbaijan has an area of 86,600 sq km and a population of over 9 million. Its capital is Baku and its main language is Azerbaijani. Both countries are unitary presidential republics with Muslim majorities and currencies called manat.

1. Turkmenistan and
Azerbaijan
Matheo Noboa
7th C
Tuesday/November 25th
2014

2. Turkmenistan
AREA: 490 200 km²
POPULATION: 5,171,943 people
CAPITAL: Ashgabat
SPOKEN LANGUAGE: Turkmen
SECUNDARY LANGUAGE: Russian
MAIN RELIGION: Muslims
MAIN HOLIDAY: January 12 – Memorial Day
ABOUT: Honoring those who fell on 12 of January of
1881 defending the Geok Tepe fortress against the
Russian troops.

3. • CURRENCY: Turkmen new manat
• GOVERMENT SYSTEM: Unitary presidential republic

4.  AREA: 86,600 km2
Azerbijan
 POPULATION: 9 494 600 people
 CAPITAL: Baku
 SPOKEN LANGUAGE: Azerbaijani
 SECUNDARY LANGUAGE: Russian
 MAIN RELIGION: Muslims
 MAIN HOLIDAY: January 20 – Martyrs' Day
 ABOUT: Commemorates Black January (1990) when Soviet
troops entered Baku and killed more than 130 civilians.

5.  CURRENCY: Manat
 GOVERMENT SYSTEM: Dominant-party presidential republic