Lebap Province

Lebap Province is a very sparsely populated province of Turkmenistan along the Amu Darya River, forming the country's eastern boundary with Uzbekistan.

Cities

 * — the largest city in the region, on the road to Bukhara.
 * — a remote town on the Amu Darya.

Other destinations

 * – home to the Dinosaur Plateau, which contains more than 400 footprints of dinosaurs
 * , famed for its zemzen, or desert crocodiles. Established in 1928 for the study and preservation of a sand-desert ecosystem, it covers an area of.

Understand
About three-quarters of the region's land area is in the Karakum Desert.

The region's sunny weather and abundance of water resources help produce high-quality long-staple cotton – but the water use along the Amu Darya results in the river not reaching the Aral Sea any more.