Jebel is a town in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan. It is subordinate to the city of Balkanabat and the nearest municipality to the Mollagara Sanitorium, which is four kilometers distant.Обновлена инфраструктура бальнеотерапевтического курорта «Моллакара» As of 2022, Jebel reached a population of 15,056 people.
Etymology Jebel means "mountain" in Arabic, and refers in this case to a nearby peak in the Balkhan Range.
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.В посёлке Джебел на западе Туркменистана открыт каолиновый завод In 2011 Turkish Polimeks built Turkmenistan's largest cement plant in Jebel, capable of producing one million tons of cement per year.На западе Туркменистана построен крупнейший в стране цементный завод In 2014 a plant was opened for packaging medicinal mud and sea salt.Президент Туркменистана принял участие в открытии ряда объектов на западе страны
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.Окладников А. П. Пещера Джебел — памятник древней культуры прикаспийских племен Туркмении, Тр. ЮТАКЭ, т. 7, Аш., 1956.
Transportation The Balkanabat International Airport is located a few kilometers away from Jebel. Turkmenistan Inaugurates New Balkanabat International Airport The airport accepts domestic and international flights.Belavia будет выполнять полеты в Балканабат
Jebel is located at the junction of the M37 highway and the P-17 highway, which leads to the Cheleken Peninsula.
The rail line between Türkmenbaşy and Ashgabat passes through Jebel, which has its own rail station.
Population 1959Перепись-1959 1970Перепись-1970 1979Перепись-1979 1989Перепись-19892022 4389 6353 7978 769715056
Dependencies Jebel as a town has 3 dependent rural village:
Jebel, town:
123-nji duralga, village Mollagara, village Zähmet, village
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