Turkmenistan Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Turkmenistan includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas. The dataset is an export from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project, managed by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Map settlement distribution based on named places and residential landuse tags.
• Conduct population analysis using the geographic context of populated places.
• Support demographic studies by identifying urban and residential areas.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Explicitly covers both named places (`place=*`) and residential land (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:42:51.681166.

Geography

Turkmenistan