Türkmenabat
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Türkmenabat (or Turkmenabad; Turkmen: Түркменабат) is a city in Turkmenistan. It used to be called Chardzhou (Russian: Чарджоу, Turkmen: Чәрҗев); Persian for "four canals"). It is the capital of Lebap Province. There were about 254,000 people living there in 2009.