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Ashgabat Botanical Garden

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

2% trees around it and 26 species recorded.

18Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km2%
  • wild within 10 km50%
  • species recorded26
  • Altitude240 m

The forest around

2% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 6%Shrubland 1%Grassland 3%Bare ground 4%Cropland 0%Built-up 86%Trees 2%Shrubland 5%Grassland 20%Bare ground 12%Cropland 3%Built-up 59%Trees 1%Shrubland 8%Grassland 24%Water 1%Bare ground 16%Cropland 9%Built-up 41%Trees 1%Shrubland 10%Grassland 22%Wetland 0%Water 4%Bare ground 14%Cropland 21%Built-up 28%2%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km6%
  • 1–3 km2%
  • 3–6 km1%
  • 6–10 km1%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees2%
  • Shrubland5%
  • Grassland20%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground12%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up59%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

26 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Barbed goatgrass
Barbed goatgrassAegilops triuncialis7 recordsEdna May Whitehorn (illustrator), for Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the · Public domain
Ephedra intermedia
Ephedra intermediaEphedra intermedia2 recordsSten Porse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Poacynum lancifolium
Poacynum lancifoliumPoacynum lancifolium2 recordsSalicyna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pilosella proceraPilosella procera2 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

18out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 50%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 26Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 240 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan8°-3°16 mm
  2. Feb10°-2°29 mm
  3. Mar16°3°38 mm
  4. Apr22°8°32 mm
  5. May28°15°18 mm
  6. Jun33°20°5 mm
  7. Jul35°22°5 mm
  8. Aug33°20°2 mm
  9. Sep28°15°3 mm
  10. Oct22°9°10 mm
  11. Nov14°2°22 mm
  12. Dec9°-2°16 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ashgabat Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Turkmenistan

Ashgabat Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Turkmenistan, 240 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 50% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

26 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 22 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Barbed goatgrass, Ephedra intermedia and Poacynum lancifolium.

The best time to walk is from March to April and in October.

Ashgabat Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and walk

  • Lachin Transit Hotelplace to stay · 3.9 km · 117 within 10 km
  • Ashgabatnearest town · 3.2 km in a straight line
  • Ashgabat International Airport (ASB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 4 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Ashgabat Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 105shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmAgama Mountaineering Club
  • 264car parks within 3 km
  • 117places to stay within 10 kmLachin Transit Hotel, Gurtly ÝJT, HILTI Turkmenistan and 114 more
  • 105restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Ashgabat Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Gora Karadepe16 kmGora Tagalmy19 kmGora Pursaki19 kmGora Bol'shoye Kare22 kmKhrebet Saandak23 kmGora Bozyk-Yamo24 kmGora Khalats24 kmGora Mirza-Bagir-Chil'24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Gurtly Suwhowdany5.7 km² · 9.2 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Independence Monument, Ashgabat8.6 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Ashgabat Botanical Garden

Turkmenistan

  • 18Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 26Species

Abr Forest

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  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 59Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q86755199) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species115 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Viewyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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