|  Azerbaijan Republic: (more info)
 Location: Southwestern Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan is bordering with Russia, Turkey, Iran, Armenia and GeorgiaArea: total: 86,600 sq km
 Caspian coastline: aprox. 800 km
 Climate: dry, semiarid steppe
 Population: 8,238,672  (July 2009 est.)
 Languages: Azerbaijani  90.3%, Lezgi 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.3%, unspecified 1%  (1999 census)
 Capital: Baku
 GDP: purchasing power parity - $73.65  billion (2008 est.)
 GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $9,000  (2008 est.)
 Inflation rate (consumer prices):  21.6%  (2008 est.)
 Labor force: 5.782  million (2008 est.)
 Unemployment rate: 0.8%  official rate (2008 est.)
 Exports:  $38.28  billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Imports:  $7.496  billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Currency: 1 manat = 100 gopiks
 http://www.azstat.org                                                            
                                                            
                                                            https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aj.html
                                                        
                                                          http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/regions2008/
      Islamic Republic of Iran: (more)
 Location: Middle East, bordering 
the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and 
PakistanArea: total: 1.648 million sq km
 Area - 
comparative: slightly larger than Alaska
 Caspian coastline: aprox. 
1000 km
 note: Iran also borders the Caspian Sea (740 
km)
 Climate: mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian 
coast
 Population: 66,429,284 (July 2009 est.)
 Languages: 
Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, 
Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
 Capital: 
Tehran
 GDP: purchasing power parity - $842 billion (2008 est.)
 GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $12,800 (2008 est.)
 HDI value: 0.777  (2006)Inflation rate (consumer prices): 28% (2008 est.)
 Labor 
                                                        force: 24.35 million (2008 est.)
 Unemployment rate: 12.5% (2008 est.)
 Exports: $106.4 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Imports: $67.79 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Currency: 10 Iranian rials (IR) = 1 
                                                          toman;
 http://www.president.ir/
 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html#Geo
 http://www.gks.ru/
 http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/regions2008/
    Kazakhstan Republic: (more info)
 Location:  Central Asia, northwest of China Area: total:  2,717,300 sq km
 Caspian coastline:  aprox. 2320 km
 Climate:  continental, cold winters and hot summers, arid and semiarid
 Population: 15,399,437  (July 2009 est.)
 Capital:  Astana
 Languages:  Kazakh (Qazaq, state language) 64%, Russian (official, used in everyday business) 95% (2001 est)
 GDP:  purchasing power parity - $176.9  billion (2008 est.)
 GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $11,500  (2008 est.)
 HDI value: 0.807 (2006)
 Inflation rate (consumer prices): 18.6%  (2008 est.)
 Labor force: 8.358  million (2008 est.)
 Labor force - by occupation: industry 18.4%, agriculture 31.5%, services: 50% (2005 est.)
 Unemployment rate:  6.9% (2003 est.)
 Exports:  $66.57  billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Imports:  $37.53  billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Currency:  1 Kazakhstani tenge = 100 tiyn
 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kz.html#Econ
 http://www.president.kz/
 http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/regions2008/
     |    Russian Federation: (more info)
 Location:  Northern Asia, bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean Area: total:  17,075,200 sq km
 Caspian coastline:  aprox. 1930 km
 Climate:  ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast
 Population: 140,041,247  (July 2009 est.)
 Languages:  Russian, other
 Capital:  Moscow
 GDP:  purchasing power parity - $2.225  trillion (2008 est.)
 GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $15,800  (2008 est.)
 HDI value: 0.806 (2006)
 Inflation rate: 13.9%  (2008 est.)
 Labor force: 75.7  million (2008 est.)
 Unemployment rate: 6.2%  (2008 est.)
 Currency:  1 rouble (R) = 100 kopeks 
                                                        https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html#Geo
 http://president.kremlin.ru/
 http://www.gks.ru/
 http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/regions2008/
   
  Turkmenistan: (more info)
 
Location: Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and KazakhstanArea: total: 491,2 sq km (2003)
 Caspian coastline:  aprox. 650km
 Climate: Deeply continental, dry
 Population: 4,884,887  (July 2009 est.)
 Languages:  Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7%
 Capital:  Ashgabat
 GDP:  purchasing power parity -  $29.65 billion (2008  est.)
 GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $6,100  (2008 est.)
 HDI  value: 0.728  (2006)Inflation rate (consumer prices): 18%  (2008 est.)
 Labor force: 2.089  million (2004 est.)
 Unemployment rate: 60%  (2004 est.)
 Exports:  $9.887  billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Imports:  $5.291  billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
 Currency: 1 Turkmen manat (TMM) = 100 tenesi
 The sources: 1."Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan for 2000-2003" ( Publishing House "Turkmen millihasabat")
 2." The Gold Epoch of Turkmenistan in figures and facts" under reduction of V.M. Khramov and J. Bairamov, Ashkhabad , 2002
 3.
                                                        The operative - analytical review of the basic social and economic indicators  of Turkmenistan for January - April, 2005 National institute of the state statistics and  information of Turkmenistan . 
                                                      https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tx.html#People
 http://www.grida.no/enrin/htmls/turkmen/soe2/index.htm
 http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/regions2008/
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