Imagine a country where the president is like "REALLLLY" trying to reclaim your traditional roots while simeltaneously rebuilding everything out of marble and rapping with his grandson. That's only a SMALL piece of #Turkmenistan. Enjoy this episode and thanks to MALIKA, and her dad Najmiddin for being in the episode as well as all the other rare Turkmen people we found that helped out!
As a turkmen originated turkish who is having a daughter baby, we really love our daughters too much. We are very strong in wars but very soft against our daughters. Welcome to turkic family!
How amazing that I understood everything the Turkmen dad said. My mother tongue is Azerbaijani and we have the same roots. Salam olsun bütün türk qardaşlarımıza!
I love the fact that Paul tries his best to do these episodes in a fast but also in a good way cuz these videos are such good quality and he manages to do this for us, ty
So happy to see Raouf and Malika are engaged and it all started here 😍 go Geography Now 🎉 making the world a happier place with all this love and learning!
loved the production around this episode. having someone that works as a content creator talk about their own country means that the flow of the video sounds and looks a lot more professional than other episodes which featured guests from the country being covered. the presentation play she did with Hannah, hiding behind her and showing up with each word, was lovely :)
Many thanks for this awesome video which really did justice to our beloved, brotherly nation Turkmenistan, and for featuring Malika, whose work I've been following for a year and is honestly the best person for this kind of work. Can't wait for the Uzbekistan episode! ❤ Long live the unity and brotherhood of the Turkic peoples! 🇦🇿 Yaşasın türk xalqlarının birliyi və qardaşlığı! 🇰🇿 Жасасын түркі халықтарның бірлігі мен бауырмалдығы! 🇰🇬 Жашасын түрк элдеринин биримдиги жана бир туугандыгы! 🇹🇷 Yaşasın Türk halklarının birliği ve kardeşliği! 🇹🇲 Ýaşasyn türki halklarynyň birligi we doganlygy! 🇺🇿 Yashasin turkiy xalqlarning birligi ham qardoshligi!
Amazing, I've learned standard Turkish for a few years now and I could understand everything that Najmiddin said. Also the place names almost all make sense, "black straight lake" and stuff like that.
Finallyyyy GN dropped an episode about Turkmenistan❤ Tbh this is THE most honest and positive content on Turkmenistan. Most of the other content out there is about negativity and talks only about “The Government” and not about the actual people and the country. I love how Malika and her Dad are genuine examples of our people. I can see in them my family. Well done❤
I remember obsessing about Turkmenistan and Ashgabat back in 2016 where i watched every RUclips video about them and scanning google earth , it was fun and fascinating , glad GN made it to Turkmenistan 🔥
I was doing the same thing in the same year... damn good times. Also I watched a lot of Mongol Rally videos where they drove around Ashgabat and visited the Gates to Hell.
Fan/flag Friday is my favorite part of these episodes, I enjoy watching you talk about the flags, then interact with us through your unboxing. I'm a little sad that you are considering stopping those.
I visited Turkmenistan in 2019, Ashgabat was weird but also amazing, all the big marble buildings.. but almost no people on the streets. The Darvaza crater is só hot.. and so big. Especially at night it was an amazing experience. Kunga-Urgench at the north was so beautiful. I would have liked to visit so much more places, to bad it's all so restricted and difficult. But thankfull to have been able to see all these amazing places.
Actually, our people prefer to ride a bus (taxi) or drive a car rather than walk. This is 21st century, there is a lot of transport that people can use to get from one place to another. I am actually surprised that a lot of people don’t understand it.
Loved the episode Barbs, Malika and Najiddin! I loved that Malika and Hannah were both part of the culture segment ! I definitely think that whenever possible, if an episode has a cohost, they should drop in for the culture segment to help with pronunciation because it’s really cool to hear the words spoken out loud instead of them just being on screen
Wow this is such an amazing video! Malika and her Father also stole the show! I also love the concept of having almost the entire society trying to bring back traditions, cultures, customs that benefits any Civilization. As well as exposing their unique colours to the World. I'm really into culture/art of the World and this is definitely on my next list. Greetings from 🇷🇸🇨🇦
15:56 I think some of the Teke tribe migrated to Turkey long ago as well. There is a district called "Teke" in Antalya Province, which I assume was named after the tribe.
Ayrıca Türkmenistan haritasında Yalvaç diye bir yerleşim yeri gördüm. Yakınında Salur ( veya yazır tam hatırlamıyorum) köyü vardı. İlginç olan Isparta'da Yalvaç ilçesi ve yakınında Salur (veya Yazır) köyü var. Yerleşim bire bir aynı.
Thanks, Geography Now, I have learnt so much from your documentary channel. The world is so diverse and interesting and Turkmenistan people are indeed very exotic and beautiful looking. Please don't ever lose your culture and heritage, it is important for the country to move forward and embrace modernity but never compromise your roots and history. Peace to all mankind. Greetings from Australia.
I'm Kazakh, recently was in the US and met a Turkmen guy from Tajikistan. We both knew Russian and English but kinda decided to communicate in Uzbek. That's hilarious. He was a nice guy, he told me some of Turkmen traditions and many cool stuff from their traditional medicine. Like eating dried snake meat heals all diseases and drinking rabbit blood also does something supernatural to your body. Central Asia is one big family. Love to everyone. Türkmen biradarlarym sag bolsyn
I am Turkish and rabbit blood surprised me a bit because we call Turkish tea Rabbit blood (tavşan kanı). I thought it was so irrelevant to call it that way, but I think there's a connection between the two
snake meat and rabbit blood, in all honesty, sounds like a really asian thing to do glad that different cultures on a giant continent do have similarities sometimes
It doesn't sound very convincing, maybe he is a Lo'qay or O'zbek, if you are a Qozoq and understood this guy from Tojikston, then he is a Lo'qay, because you, Qozoqs, will not understand the Farg'ona dialect (literary) of the O'zbek language, and the Lo'qay language is a bit like the Qozoq language, but for Qozoqs, the Lo'qay language may sound like O'zbek because of persian borrowings
Yes! Also, deserts are definitely one of the most underrated beauties of the world (although, for me, as a Finn/Forestic/Krasnian from way up North, living in one would probably be one heck of a challenge) 🏜️.
Awesome job all. The Central Asian nations have always fascinated me. They're so little known to the world. The first exposure I got of Turkmenistan and the other Central Asian nations was from their music - years ago I got a double CD of the Silk Road Ensemble which included music from Turkmen artists among others.
Some of the friendliest, kindest, and most generous people I have ever met have been in Turkmenistan. However, good lord, those roads. The road from Turkmenbasi to Ashgabat was phenomenal. Anything outside of that....the locals just drove in the ditch
What a lovely and beautiful episode. While an obscure country, region of the world Turkmenistan is, I gotta say it would be one of the most fun to visit and experience it on your own. Malika and her dad were awesome hosts. And Hannah's part was a bit off to my opinion but was funny to see both girls working in tandem and brave the section to the end And don't end the Flag Part of the countries pleaseeeee. I love Vexillology so I'm one of those 30k crazy peps that watch them 😇😅
Was waiting for this episode and really enjoyed learning about Turkmenistan, Malika's presentation and her father's song. My greetings and cheers from India!!
Thank you very much for the video :) My grand grandmother lived and was a doctor in Turkmenistan during Soviet times. She had to fake her death during an earthquake to flea the country and come back to Russia. Her daughter (my grandma) really liked wearing the tahya hat. She still keeps it. I would really like to go there someday maybe through work, we’ll see.
What a beautiful episode. I love when the smaller, lesser known, more isolated countries get their moment in the sun. It's like they're hidden jewels waiting to be discovered, especially ones with such deep and interesting history as Turkmenistan.
I’m an Azerbaijani and I understood 95% of the things they said in Turkmen. It’s so fascinating that despite being farther than Turkey, Turkmen language is closer to Azerbaijani language
@@Mirza7385 it would be nice if it was possible to construct baku-turkmenbashi tunnel. it maybe more important(or equal importance) than zangezur corridor.
Probably my favorite GN episode. I subscribed only recently, and I wanted to go back to the veeeeery beginning and watch every single one. I'm almost caught up! Malika was fantastic. Barbs, you do a great job.
First of all, I never knew that I'd enjoy so much learning about Turkmenistan of all places. The country always sounded obscure and fring-y to me, like a mystery or something. I'm glad I was wrong, the place sounds really interesting) Second of all, Malika is a treasure. She clearly has the time of her life co-hosting the episode, and she's really good at it, so it makes me orders of magnitude happy that we will see her again. Third of all, yey, I'm one of thirteen people who watch the flag episodes! I really like the flag staff, and Turkmenistan flag has loads on it, sooooo... looking forward to it Awesome episode Barbs, thanks a lot!)))
17:01 "th" is common in the Teke and maybe Yomut tribes. So it's not used in 2 regions of Turkmenistan that makes up to half of the population. So I would highly doubt that "th" is the attribute of the language itself, rather it's attribute of dialects.
Great co-hosting by Malika there. And it’s nice that you had used the traditional country music as the outro, instead of the usual whistle. You should do that in the following countries somehow. ü
The Türkmen people, culture, history and language is very, very beautiful. It's a shame that a bunch of old men decided that all this beauty would be isolated.
@@mbayatab4326 It depends on how the people treat it. If the people are proud of their nationality, language and history, I am sure their culture and traditions will be fine. If their loyalty to their nationality is weak, they will lose it.
@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH I am talking Kazakhstan’s reality where its national culture and traditions are generally poorly preserved and a large number of Kazakhs prefer speaking Russian over its own Kazakh language. We in Turkmenistan don’t isolate ourselves, but are trying to preserve and develop our national identity, the Turkmen language and our way of life while taking good things from other cultures.
13:20 "Süýtli çaý" or "milk tea" is a default type of tea in Kazakhstan and India, as far as I know. To have the tea without a milk you need to explicitly say so. But in Turkmenistan it's not the default tea type, you need to say that you want a tea with milk.
irandən türkəmən qardaşlarımıza salamlar. Damarımda əfşar qanı var, və mən türkəmən qardaşlarımı çox sevirəm. hamınız selamət olsun! Greetings to our Turkmen brothers from Iran. I have Turkmen blood in my veins and I love my Turkmen brothers so much. May all of you be fine 🇮🇷❤️🇹🇲🤗
@@amir_iceking بعید میدونم. من خودم ترک آذری هستم ولی قطعا ایران رو وطن خودم میدونم و براش میمیرم اگه نیاز باشه نه جمهوری باکو که داره اسم ما رو هم خراب میکنه
Türkmen kardeşlerimize, atalarımıza Balkan Türklerinden selamlar ve sevgiler! Greetings to our Turkmen ancestors and brothers from the Balkan turks with love!
This is soooo good. You all brought to light best of Turkmenistan and showed its human and cultural face while allowing us all to read between the lines about current “presidential” and political issues. Great. It makes me sad my country’s name starts with C (in Engish) so it was a rather short video about it. Have a great day everyone and thank you for another great video.
I hope the country opens up in the not too distant future, may not seem likely but Ashgabat looks like an amazing city. I would seriously consider having my wedding in their fancy marble wedding chappel
Thank you very much guys. I've been there twice already and going again next week. Fascinating country, I love it very much. I think what you didn't mention is the natural beauty of Turkmenistan. The Darai-dere, the cave systems of Kutinanga, the dinasour imprints on the rocks. Very few people get to see these, these are incredible and utterly mindblowing.
As a Khwarezmian Turkmen Thanks for support us but unfortuanetly our government is trash and Im pretty sure that every Turkmen praying for their president's death btw Netherlands is my dream country and Amsterdam,Rotterdam are great cities 🇳🇱❤
I visited 3 of Sovietstan republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) and there're 2 remaining ; Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Turkmenistan is hard to visit as visa is costly and its so hard to get and on top of that, you need to be accompanied by a guide. I hope they will open Turkmenistan and make it easier to visit as the country seems to have amazing history.
Imagine a country where the president is like "REALLLLY" trying to reclaim your traditional roots while simeltaneously rebuilding everything out of marble and rapping with his grandson. That's only a SMALL piece of #Turkmenistan. Enjoy this episode and thanks to MALIKA, and her dad Najmiddin for being in the episode as well as all the other rare Turkmen people we found that helped out!
Thank you! :)
North Korea 2.0
That is definitely interesting dude
Wut the f*ck
@@alguien_llamado_angel 😂😂😂
thank you so much for letting my dad and i be part of this, barbs! i hope you all enjoy this! 🇹🇲❤️
Maladys
Turkmenistan is a country with such high potential, let's hope one day she democratises and people can visit her wonders freely
I love you from phllipines 🇵🇭❤️♥️❤️
Hello from Barbados...
@@communistchicken4249 idiot
The daughter father relationship in this episode was incredibly wholesome.
"Dad, get over here"
cuddly teddy bear of a dad walks in and waves
Do you not understand what he believes in?
As a turkmen originated turkish who is having a daughter baby, we really love our daughters too much. We are very strong in wars but very soft against our daughters. Welcome to turkic family!
Wow, incredible video! Turkmenistan, one of the few countries I have left 🎉
भाई
🌝
Brother
Wait a sec
Lol Thanks man, Awesome traveling in Batumi georgia with you literally right now. Like you are literally in the same room with me 🤣
As a Kazakh, I understood about 80% of what the dad said. Wow!
😮
Me too as a Turkish
Its Khwarezmian yeah our language mostly similar to Turkish and Khwarezm is fatherland of Oguz Turks but our language also similar Kazakh too
i m anatolian yörük and i also got everything almost
Because we are all TURK
How amazing that I understood everything the Turkmen dad said. My mother tongue is Azerbaijani and we have the same roots. Salam olsun bütün türk qardaşlarımıza!
Turkish people can understand too😅
@@papazataklaattiranimam oh you're here again, the turkish fascist who spreads propaganda 🤣
Türkiyeden selamlar olsun soydasim
He didnt speak in Turkmen, maybe in Uzbek but...i could hardly understand him((im turkmen
Selam olsun kardeşim 🇹🇷♥️🇦🇿♥️🇹🇲
Thank you for an amazing opportunity to teach the world about Turkmenistan and Turkmen ppl!🇹🇲❤️
Let’s see some Turkmen recipes!
Senem emrikäde yaşiyonlardan mi? O gyz Türkmen kem özbek köp ha o 🤦♂️
You got the wrong girl. This is the one who talked about the food.
Turkmen Pakistani bahi bahi 🥰🤝
I respect Turkmenistan and I think that Turkmenistan is a great country.
I love the fact that Paul tries his best to do these episodes in a fast but also in a good way cuz these videos are such good quality and he manages to do this for us, ty
So happy to see Raouf and Malika are engaged and it all started here 😍 go Geography Now 🎉 making the world a happier place with all this love and learning!
loved the production around this episode.
having someone that works as a content creator talk about their own country means that the flow of the video sounds and looks a lot more professional than other episodes which featured guests from the country being covered.
the presentation play she did with Hannah, hiding behind her and showing up with each word, was lovely :)
Many thanks for this awesome video which really did justice to our beloved, brotherly nation Turkmenistan, and for featuring Malika, whose work I've been following for a year and is honestly the best person for this kind of work. Can't wait for the Uzbekistan episode!
❤ Long live the unity and brotherhood of the Turkic peoples!
🇦🇿 Yaşasın türk xalqlarının birliyi və qardaşlığı!
🇰🇿 Жасасын түркі халықтарның бірлігі мен бауырмалдығы!
🇰🇬 Жашасын түрк элдеринин биримдиги жана бир туугандыгы!
🇹🇷 Yaşasın Türk halklarının birliği ve kardeşliği!
🇹🇲 Ýaşasyn türki halklarynyň birligi we doganlygy!
🇺🇿 Yashasin turkiy xalqlarning birligi ham qardoshligi!
Malika's dad sings soo beautifully! Great to hear some authentic Turkmen singing
That wasn’t Turkmen singing that was Uzbek singing
@@serdaratayev308 Oo, I'm sorry I didn't know.
Still nice though🎉
Thanks for making video about our turkmen brothers love from Uzbekistan. 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿 i hope you will arrive to our country soon
Love UZBEKISTAN 🇺🇿 BROTHER AND SISTERS FROM CRAMIAN TATAR BROTHER TURAN
@@islammehmeov2334 assalomu alaykum
@@orziqulovburhoniddin8564 ve Alekum Selamun
Turan brothers 🇹🇷
Finally, I feel like it's been 40 years since the last episode.
Nah for real🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
True
Travel is more important than this series it seems
It was fast for me
@@KidGibson So mans not allowed a break and a life? Sheesh
Amazing, I've learned standard Turkish for a few years now and I could understand everything that Najmiddin said. Also the place names almost all make sense, "black straight lake" and stuff like that.
*strait
Finallyyyy GN dropped an episode about Turkmenistan❤ Tbh this is THE most honest and positive content on Turkmenistan. Most of the other content out there is about negativity and talks only about “The Government” and not about the actual people and the country. I love how Malika and her Dad are genuine examples of our people. I can see in them my family. Well done❤
Yeah her broken Türkmençe proves that, she's assimilated
I have lots of kazakh and kyrgyt friends but sadly no turkmen ones :/
I remember obsessing about Turkmenistan and Ashgabat back in 2016 where i watched every RUclips video about them and scanning google earth , it was fun and fascinating , glad GN made it to Turkmenistan 🔥
Hah I did the same a year ago!
But ... why?
I was doing the same thing in the same year... damn good times. Also I watched a lot of Mongol Rally videos where they drove around Ashgabat and visited the Gates to Hell.
I'm doing so now. Lmao
Malika and her Dad were amazing! Loved the enthusiasm :)
Greetings to Turkmenistan from Bosnia. 🇧🇦🇹🇲
İ am from Turkey and i almost completely understand her fathers greeting
That warmth my hearth kinsman
Qardaş Türkmen xalqına salam olsun 🇦🇿❤🇹🇲 love Turkmenistan from Azerbaijan
Türkmenistan dan size salam gardaş Ýaşasyn ❤🇹🇷🇦🇿🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲❤
Mannat hahah
I loved Malika's father speaking in Turkmenistan language. 😀
You mean Turkmen?
@@hardal201 Turkmenistani
@@papazataklaattiranimamTürkmenche imam canım
I am Türkmen myself, but I hardly understood what he said, it sounds more Uzbek than turkmen
@@hardal201 , yes.
Fan/flag Friday is my favorite part of these episodes, I enjoy watching you talk about the flags, then interact with us through your unboxing. I'm a little sad that you are considering stopping those.
Great job! This is the best video I watched about my country! I just loved the way you did it! Thank you
Salam from Afghanistan to our beautiful neighbor Turkmenistan 🇦🇫❤🇹🇲
Great video, your work deserve like and comment 🖤
From Khorezm 🇺🇿
Wow me also from Khorezm
@@aimamova8628 nerindansiz
@@ZaripboyevBehruzbek Xazarasp
Way to go Malika!!! 🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲
thank you brandon!!! ❤
I visited Turkmenistan in 2019, Ashgabat was weird but also amazing, all the big marble buildings.. but almost no people on the streets. The Darvaza crater is só hot.. and so big. Especially at night it was an amazing experience. Kunga-Urgench at the north was so beautiful. I would have liked to visit so much more places, to bad it's all so restricted and difficult. But thankfull to have been able to see all these amazing places.
Actually, our people prefer to ride a bus (taxi) or drive a car rather than walk. This is 21st century, there is a lot of transport that people can use to get from one place to another. I am actually surprised that a lot of people don’t understand it.
@@mbayatab4326 So they teleport from their homes to public transportation? That's awesome.
Can you explain what you saw on your way to the crater?
love Turkmenistan from Turkiye
🥹
🦃
@@DJ_Ichiyo shut up furry
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@@DJ_IchiyoTürkiye not turkey!
so excited for uzbekistan when malika will be back, she was a great addition to the show!
Loved the episode Barbs, Malika and Najiddin! I loved that Malika and Hannah were both part of the culture segment !
I definitely think that whenever possible, if an episode has a cohost, they should drop in for the culture segment to help with pronunciation because it’s really cool to hear the words spoken out loud instead of them just being on screen
Wow this is such an amazing video! Malika and her Father also stole the show!
I also love the concept of having almost the entire society trying to bring back traditions, cultures, customs that benefits any Civilization. As well as exposing their unique colours to the World.
I'm really into culture/art of the World and this is definitely on my next list.
Greetings from 🇷🇸🇨🇦
Hey Barb, i just wanted to say that i like the way you have made learning fun 😊
15:56 I think some of the Teke tribe migrated to Turkey long ago as well. There is a district called "Teke" in Antalya Province, which I assume was named after the tribe.
True!
Ayrıca Türkmenistan haritasında Yalvaç diye bir yerleşim yeri gördüm. Yakınında Salur ( veya yazır tam hatırlamıyorum) köyü vardı. İlginç olan Isparta'da Yalvaç ilçesi ve yakınında Salur (veya Yazır) köyü var. Yerleşim bire bir aynı.
Thanks, Geography Now, I have learnt so much from your documentary channel. The world is so diverse and interesting and Turkmenistan people are indeed very exotic and beautiful looking.
Please don't ever lose your culture and heritage, it is important for the country to move forward and embrace modernity but never compromise your roots and history. Peace to all mankind.
Greetings from Australia.
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR YEARS
I am an Afghan turkmen. love my ancestors land 🇹🇲🇹🇲🇦🇫🇦🇫
بیگی خوده
I think that Turkmenistan is a great country.
Me and my friend from Belgium created the twp alliance it's an organization where we protect each other from our enemies.
no one is ancestor to no one. we turkmens from Turkmenistan are brothers to you
Nirden sen garındaşım 😄 qaysı şeherden?
What an absolutely luminous co-host you flew over! Im so charmed B) Great to get to know Turkmenistan more!! Greetings from Finland :)
what does vittu mean
@@hissukka6619 flowerpot
@@yohanbeck8172 and vittusaatana
@@hissukka6619 flower on the pot
I'm Kazakh, recently was in the US and met a Turkmen guy from Tajikistan. We both knew Russian and English but kinda decided to communicate in Uzbek. That's hilarious. He was a nice guy, he told me some of Turkmen traditions and many cool stuff from their traditional medicine. Like eating dried snake meat heals all diseases and drinking rabbit blood also does something supernatural to your body. Central Asia is one big family. Love to everyone. Türkmen biradarlarym sag bolsyn
I am Turkish and rabbit blood surprised me a bit because we call Turkish tea Rabbit blood (tavşan kanı). I thought it was so irrelevant to call it that way, but I think there's a connection between the two
cheers for all Central Asians
snake meat and rabbit blood, in all honesty, sounds like a really asian thing to do
glad that different cultures on a giant continent do have similarities sometimes
Why is he not a billionaire selling snake oil, sorry, snake meat? LIAR
It doesn't sound very convincing, maybe he is a Lo'qay or O'zbek, if you are a Qozoq and understood this guy from Tojikston, then he is a Lo'qay, because you, Qozoqs, will not understand the Farg'ona dialect (literary) of the O'zbek language, and the Lo'qay language is a bit like the Qozoq language, but for Qozoqs, the Lo'qay language may sound like O'zbek because of persian borrowings
Love to our Oğuz brothers 🇹🇷❤🇦🇿❤🇹🇲
Azerbaijani: Səni sevirəm
Turkish: Seni seviyorum
Turkmen: Seni söýýärin
If I press “translate to English” “Turkish:” becomes “English:” lol
Oghuz brothers 🇹🇷❤🇦🇿❤🇹🇲
@@simplifier_ I laugh high😂
Salar: Men seni söyünba
turkmenistan seems like a such a beautiful country! great video
Yeah but they are nuts and strict
@@matthewwelsh294 it’s ok it’s all a phase to regain their heritage. I give them 50 years to open up😂
Yes! Also, deserts are definitely one of the most underrated beauties of the world (although, for me, as a Finn/Forestic/Krasnian from way up North, living in one would probably be one heck of a challenge) 🏜️.
Malika and her dad's traditional clothes are so beautiful ! Gotta love this aspect of Turkmen culture. Plus the Akhal-Teke, obviously !
I had the pleasure of performing together with Turkmenistan's youth orchestra in Germany 2019. Very talented and hard working folks.
What was the name of the orchestra?
@@mbayatab4326 I can't remember for the life of me lol. But the conductor's name was Rasul Klichev.
@@whatever2045 Yep, that’s Rasul Klytchev Orchestra
@@mbayatab4326 Yes sorry for typo
Awesome job all. The Central Asian nations have always fascinated me. They're so little known to the world. The first exposure I got of Turkmenistan and the other Central Asian nations was from their music - years ago I got a double CD of the Silk Road Ensemble which included music from Turkmen artists among others.
I love Turkmen people they are nice and friendly people from Cambodia 🇰🇭 🇹🇲
I like how he's content are very fun and educational! Keep it up bro! 😁
This is Why I love you Barbs Geography now. You pack so much and yet deliver with accurate facts. Thank you 😊
One of my favorite episodes in a while. Man barby I’ve been here since 2014 and it just warms my heart you’re almost done
Amazing episode!
Very interesting! Malika is such an amazing host! She (and Dad) made this one sizzle!
Glad to hear Malika will be also in the Uzbekistan video. She been a great co host here with her father.
Some of the friendliest, kindest, and most generous people I have ever met have been in Turkmenistan. However, good lord, those roads. The road from Turkmenbasi to Ashgabat was phenomenal. Anything outside of that....the locals just drove in the ditch
Hello to Turkmen 🇹🇲 people from Kyrgyz 🇰🇬 guy!
❤🤝🇰🇬🤝🇹🇲❤
What a lovely and beautiful episode. While an obscure country, region of the world Turkmenistan is, I gotta say it would be one of the most fun to visit and experience it on your own. Malika and her dad were awesome hosts. And Hannah's part was a bit off to my opinion but was funny to see both girls working in tandem and brave the section to the end
And don't end the Flag Part of the countries pleaseeeee. I love Vexillology so I'm one of those 30k crazy peps that watch them 😇😅
Can you please enlighten me... what is Vexillology??
@@rebeccasimantov5476 basically it's the study of the banners and flags of the places
Oh my god I'm so glad that she'll be back on Uzbekistan episode. Really looking forward to it!
Amazing monuments and landscapes. I had no clue Turkmenistan had such beautiful places.
How would you know? No one is allowed to go there.
It's hard to know much about Turkmenistan when it's so difficult to actually visit it.
Love Turkmenistan from Turkiye 🇹🇷🇹🇲
Is turkey*
@@Roossii that's how you write Turkey in Turkish language
@@Roossii go eat pineapple pizza italian
@@sbd03 we conquer constantinople in roman empire days. You're technically an italian colony hehe 🇮🇹🇨🇭💪🏻
@@Roossii what a troll.
Actually, I've been to Turkmenistan in 2019 on a transit visa as an independent traveler. I was able to move around freely and I even hitchhiked :)
Was waiting for this episode and really enjoyed learning about Turkmenistan, Malika's presentation and her father's song. My greetings and cheers from India!!
Love to our Turkic people from Turkey❤
Do you like winged hussars too?
@@PROVOCATEURSK do you like german tanks
Thank you very much for the video :)
My grand grandmother lived and was a doctor in Turkmenistan during Soviet times. She had to fake her death during an earthquake to flea the country and come back to Russia. Her daughter (my grandma) really liked wearing the tahya hat. She still keeps it. I would really like to go there someday maybe through work, we’ll see.
This episode deserves to be called one of the best! Turkmenistan is really an amazing country.
Thank you for this episode.
Love my Turkmen brothers and sisters from Türkiye!
What a beautiful episode. I love when the smaller, lesser known, more isolated countries get their moment in the sun. It's like they're hidden jewels waiting to be discovered, especially ones with such deep and interesting history as Turkmenistan.
I’m an Azerbaijani and I understood 95% of the things they said in Turkmen. It’s so fascinating that despite being farther than Turkey, Turkmen language is closer to Azerbaijani language
Yalňız bir deňiz bar aramızda garındaş 🤗
@@togrulbeg764 Xəzər dənizi 😀
@@IDeserveToGetTortured evet, hangi şehirden?
Not too far away. It's just the Caspian Sea which separates Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
@@Mirza7385 it would be nice if it was possible to construct baku-turkmenbashi tunnel. it maybe more important(or equal importance) than zangezur corridor.
i’m lucky to have my birthday when they have their national day
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Lots of love to all my Turkic people from Azerbaijan❤🇦🇿
Love both from Turkiye
MUCH LOVE TO MAY TO ALL MAY TURKIC BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM CRAMIAN TATAR BROTHER TURAN 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇿🇹🇲🇹🇷
rest of the world hates turks, thank you for wiping out entire cultures, karma is going to get you and your people
@@eztebeotxoa1165 🤣🤣🤣🖕🖕
@@papazataklaattiranimam you're from iran since adhere shia
Probably my favorite GN episode. I subscribed only recently, and I wanted to go back to the veeeeery beginning and watch every single one. I'm almost caught up! Malika was fantastic. Barbs, you do a great job.
First of all, I never knew that I'd enjoy so much learning about Turkmenistan of all places. The country always sounded obscure and fring-y to me, like a mystery or something. I'm glad I was wrong, the place sounds really interesting)
Second of all, Malika is a treasure. She clearly has the time of her life co-hosting the episode, and she's really good at it, so it makes me orders of magnitude happy that we will see her again.
Third of all, yey, I'm one of thirteen people who watch the flag episodes! I really like the flag staff, and Turkmenistan flag has loads on it, sooooo... looking forward to it
Awesome episode Barbs, thanks a lot!)))
This episode was really amazing❤, keep it up GeographyNow!!! :D
17:01 "th" is common in the Teke and maybe Yomut tribes. So it's not used in 2 regions of Turkmenistan that makes up to half of the population. So I would highly doubt that "th" is the attribute of the language itself, rather it's attribute of dialects.
Great co-hosting by Malika there. And it’s nice that you had used the traditional country music as the outro, instead of the usual whistle. You should do that in the following countries somehow. ü
I love Greography now and I really enjoyed this episode! Greetings from Australia!
Love this episode! This girl has an amazing charm! By the way, i never miss any fun flag Friday! Keep the good work!👍👍👍👍👍👍
Me from Türkiye 🇹🇷 and completely understand what he father said. Ahh my Turkic brothers
The Türkmen people, culture, history and language is very, very beautiful. It's a shame that a bunch of old men decided that all this beauty would be isolated.
Kazakhstan is very open to the world, that’s why you couldn’t keep your culture, traditions and language
@@mbayatab4326 It depends on how the people treat it. If the people are proud of their nationality, language and history, I am sure their culture and traditions will be fine. If their loyalty to their nationality is weak, they will lose it.
@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH I am talking Kazakhstan’s reality where its national culture and traditions are generally poorly preserved and a large number of Kazakhs prefer speaking Russian over its own Kazakh language. We in Turkmenistan don’t isolate ourselves, but are trying to preserve and develop our national identity, the Turkmen language and our way of life while taking good things from other cultures.
are you sure about history ?
@@behraddadashzadeh9872 those Turkmens used to be pretty strong. Many tales of Kazakhs being enslaved by Turkmens went around centuries ago
13:20 "Süýtli çaý" or "milk tea" is a default type of tea in Kazakhstan and India, as far as I know. To have the tea without a milk you need to explicitly say so. But in Turkmenistan it's not the default tea type, you need to say that you want a tea with milk.
Really enjoyed Malika as co-host for the episode, one of the very best national hosts so far!
Randomly came across a video about Turkmenistan travel on IG and ran here for more information!! It’s always so fun here! Thanks guys!!
I know this is hard to do but when you finish doing all the countries maybe you should do autonomous regions of the world
He has said that UN observer states come first
@@Lugmillord That's why they said "when you finish".
@@ms_scribbles "all the countries" means all UN recognized states, i.e. the A-Z list. Observer states are for example Kosovo.
So much love ❤️ to our neighbor Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
irandən türkəmən qardaşlarımıza salamlar. Damarımda əfşar qanı var, və mən türkəmən qardaşlarımı çox sevirəm. hamınız selamət olsun!
Greetings to our Turkmen brothers from Iran. I have Turkmen blood in my veins and I love my Turkmen brothers so much.
May all of you be fine
🇮🇷❤️🇹🇲🤗
Köp yaşa garındaşım, Türkəmən irani teleffüz o, Türkmen diymeli. Türkçülüge dönüň, iraniň täsiraatlarını güm ediň. Bizden hem salamlar bolsun sizlere gandaşım!
@@togrulbeg764 Türkmen yerine Türk desek de doğru olur çünkü Türkmen ya da Yörük konar-göçerlere denir. Türk ise mesken tutmuş Türkmen demektir
برادر شما ترکمن گلستانی ؟ ایا با ترکمنستان بیشتر از ایران همزاد پنداری داری ؟ قصدم توهین نیست ، برام سواله .
@@togrulbeg764 lol. keep dreaming Iranians are way more united than you would think
@@amir_iceking بعید میدونم. من خودم ترک آذری هستم ولی قطعا ایران رو وطن خودم میدونم و براش میمیرم اگه نیاز باشه نه جمهوری باکو که داره اسم ما رو هم خراب میکنه
I'm one of those lucky ones who visited the unique country - Turkmenistan 🇹🇲
Great video ❤️🙌
You added so much Malika. Hope you keep posting, and include some Central Asian topics.
Türkiye’den Türkmenistan’a çok selamlar 🇹🇷🤝🏻🇹🇲
Türkmenistani dan size salam gardaş 🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲🇹🇷🇦🇿❤🤝❤
Finally,I love Geography now such that I feel very happy everytime an episode is uploaded .
As a Turk, I like this episode more than ours
türkiye bölümü cok acemi geldi bana
Central asian Wannabe
@@ElSemih maybe you can go back home to mongolia
@@Alghi451 explain
@@ElSemih why wannabe central asian so much? Turkey isn't turkic's country but multiethnic country
Love this episode (as always!) just a tiny tiny bit frustrating that the ending song is not there today 🥲 I was so ready to whistle along
These episodes are getting better and better in all aspects of quality, this channel is indeed the GOAT
"Turkmenistan is a landlocked country"
Caspian sea: Am I a joke to you?
I know it isn't technically a sea.
Meanwhile Aral Sea which has 90% disappeared: Hello darkness, my old friend
Türkmen kardeşlerimize, atalarımıza Balkan Türklerinden selamlar ve sevgiler! Greetings to our Turkmen ancestors and brothers from the Balkan turks with love!
Return Jannisaries, thanks.
@@PROVOCATEURSK cope
This is soooo good. You all brought to light best of Turkmenistan and showed its human and cultural face while allowing us all to read between the lines about current “presidential” and political issues. Great.
It makes me sad my country’s name starts with C (in Engish) so it was a rather short video about it. Have a great day everyone and thank you for another great video.
"while allowing us all to read between the lines about current “presidential” and political issues. Great.", I agree!!!
I hope the country opens up in the not too distant future, may not seem likely but Ashgabat looks like an amazing city. I would seriously consider having my wedding in their fancy marble wedding chappel
Me too! That wedding palace is awesome!
It looks dystopian
It's a testament to a dictator spending the people's money on useless prestige architecture instead of development :(
I love Malika, she did great! Glad she'll be back for another episode!
Thank you very much guys. I've been there twice already and going again next week. Fascinating country, I love it very much. I think what you didn't mention is the natural beauty of Turkmenistan. The Darai-dere, the cave systems of Kutinanga, the dinasour imprints on the rocks. Very few people get to see these, these are incredible and utterly mindblowing.
Turkic Family ❣️
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What about Tajikistan 🇹🇯
@@oskaranddaniel7582 It's Iranic country but we don't have a problem with them of course
@@oskaranddaniel7582 they're persians
@@oskaranddaniel7582 they are not Turkic
❤🤝❤Türk
While the government might not be as great at least the people are! Love Turkmenistan from Netherlands
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the government is like North Korea sugar free version
Nou ik ben ook en turkmen
A dictatorship where the dictator does not kill or jail loads of people, how odd
As a Khwarezmian Turkmen Thanks for support us but unfortuanetly our government is trash and Im pretty sure that every Turkmen praying for their president's death btw Netherlands is my dream country and Amsterdam,Rotterdam are great cities 🇳🇱❤
@@aimamova8628 Thanks man! I hope you turkmen's get the government you guys prefer :)
I visited 3 of Sovietstan republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) and there're 2 remaining ; Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Turkmenistan is hard to visit as visa is costly and its so hard to get and on top of that, you need to be accompanied by a guide. I hope they will open Turkmenistan and make it easier to visit as the country seems to have amazing history.
Malika and her Dad were great! Looking forward to seeing her for Uzbekistan (with her mama?)!
Good job. I’ll wait for video about Uzbekistan🇺🇿
Im Turkish And I can mostly understand Turkmen❤