Balkan Province is the western region of Turkmenistan, spanning the western Karakum and much of the Caspian Basin.

Cities

• 1 Balkanabat — an oil and gas center at the foot of the Balkan Daglary mountains.
• 2 Bereket — (formerly Gazandzhyk) a railway town.
• 3 Esenguly — a small remote at the southwest of the region on the Caspian Sea.
• 4 Garabogaz — a town at the narrow strait separating the gigantic Garabogaz Lagoon from the Caspian Sea.
• 5 Gyzyletrek — a small border town on a rarely traveled road to Gorgan, Iran.
• 6 Gumdag — small railway town.
• 7 Serdar — a medium-sized city northwest of Ashgabat.
• 8 Turkmenbashi — Turkmenistan's port on the Caspian, with a few beach hotels.

Other destinations

• Dakhistan — the ruins of an impossibly remote Silk Road city, home to Shir-Kabir mausoleum.