Jebel, Turkmenistan
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TurkmenistanJebel
Jebel şäherçesi | |
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Town | |
  Jebel Location in Turkmenistan | |
| Coordinates: 39°37′51″N 54°14′14″E / 39.63083°N 54.23722°E | |
| Country | Turkmenistan |
| Province | Balkan Province |
| District | Balkanabat |
| Population (2022 official census) | |
• Town | 15,816 |
| • Urban | 15,056 |
| • Rural | 760 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 |
Jebel is a town in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan. It is subordinate to the city of Balkanabat[1] and the nearest municipality to the Mollagara Sanitorium, which is four kilometers distant.[2][3] As of 2022, Jebel reached a population of 15,056 people[4].
Jebel means "mountain" in Arabic, and refers in this case to a nearby peak in the Balkhan Range.[5]
Economy
Jebel serves as a support and logistics center for oil extraction operations in Balkan Province, particularly on the Cheleken Peninsula. It is also a center for mining and milling of table salt. In 2008 a kaolin plant was opened in Jebel.[6] In 2011 Turkish Polimeks built Turkmenistan's largest cement plant in Jebel, capable of producing one million tons of cement per year.[7][8] In 2014 a plant was opened for packaging medicinal mud and sea salt.[9]
Archeological site
Four kilometers east of the Jebel train station in the Greater Balkhan range is the Jebel cave, in which A.P. Okladnikov found in 1949-1950 a multilayer archeological site dating from the Mesolithic through the Neolithic and Early Bronze ages.[10]
Transportation
The Balkanabat International Airport is located a few kilometers away from Jebel. [11][12] The airport accepts domestic and international flights.[13][14]
Jebel is located at the junction of the M37 highway and the P-17 highway, which leads to the Cheleken Peninsula.[15]
The rail line between Türkmenbaşy and Ashgabat passes through Jebel, which has its own rail station.