Turkmenistan belongs to the Sunni-Turkic area of the Islamic Civilization
Global Trade and Business in Turkmenistan:
Turkmen Economy.
Agriculture: 80% of Turkmenistan is farm lands;
Significant water resources (Karakum River);
Turkmen Mineral resources: hydrocarbon, mining, salt, boron, magnesium, potassium, rubidium, and bentonite;
Drilling and exploration for petrol and gas;
Turkmen industrial sector: petrol and gas, chemical, electric power, engineering, and textile (60 textile complexes);
The main sectors of the Turkmen economy are petrol and gas, power engineering, agriculture, construction, transport and communications, chemical, textile, and building materials;
The Turkmenbashi complex of petroleum refineries is the largest high-octane gasoline and kerosene producer in Central Asia;
Gas pipelines to China and Iran;
Turkmen currency: Manat;
Turkmenistan is one of the ten most corrupt countries.
International Trade of Turkmenistan.
The main exports of Turkmenistan are petroleum, carbon, cement, salt, iodine, and grains;
Turkmenistan is an Electricity exporter (Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and Tajikistan);
Construction of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran
Railway;