Kara Kum

The Harirud rises in the mountains in the center of the country, runs generally west, passing south of the western city of Herat, and then northwest and north, where it forms part of the boarder between Iran and Turkmenistan and ultimately ends in the Kara Kum desert.

Afghanistan 2009

Turkmenistan1,300 km (Amu Darya and Kara Kum canal important inland waterways) (2006)

Waterways 2008

Waterways: 1,300 km (Amu Darya and Kara Kum canal important inland waterways) (2006)

Turkmenistan 2008

Two great Asian deserts, the Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum, are located here.

Central Asian southern desert 2008

The southern deserts include the Caspian coastal plains, the southern part of Ustyurt Plateau, Krasnovodsk Plateau, Kara Kum sandy deserts, and the southern part of Kyzyl Kum sandy desert.

Central Asian southern desert 2008

Guy Chazan/The Wall Street Journal In the vast Kara Kum desert, herds of camel still plod across the dunes just as they did a thousand years ago.

Turkmenistan Trapped in Time 2008

The full moon had 'illuminated the Kara Kum desert flatlands under the aircraft-and then these sandy wastes had ended as though at a wall built by the gods.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

Holbrooke ominously spoke of an al-Qaeda threat to Central Asia, suggesting that NATO had a role to play in the region in its capacity as the only viable security organization that could take on such a high-risk enterprise of chasing Osama bin Laden in the steppes and the killer deserts of Kizil Kum and Kara Kum.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ladylove 2010

The city is located between the Kara Kum desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range),

SpaceRef Top Stories 2010