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Turkmenistan enters record books for having the most white marble buildings


The Guardian - 27-May-2013

s natural gas wealth. Guinness World Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday on Saturday awarded Ashgabat the record for the highest density of white marble-clad buildings, saying it "shows that the architectural restyling effort led by the Turkmen government has come to a high spectacular level". Turkmenistan has developed a fixation on record-breaking. Last year, it was recognised as having the world...


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