Editing Ashgabat (section)

==Districts==
===Boroughs===
[[File:2018_01_06_ashgabat_etrapy_separation_24784.jpg|thumb|The four boroughs of the city]]

As of January 5, 2018, Ashgabat includes four boroughs (''uly etraplar''), each with a presidentially appointed mayor ({{langx|tk|häkim}}):<ref name=HM /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=15374|title=Постановление о вопросах административно-территориального деления города Ашхабада|date=January 5, 2018|access-date=July 10, 2018|archive-date=July 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708220911/http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=15374|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=15380|title=Глава государства подписал Постановления о переименовании и структурной реорганизации некоторых хякимликов Ахалского велаята и Ашхабада|date=January 5, 2018|access-date=July 10, 2018|archive-date=July 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708221040/http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=15380|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tdh.gov.tm/news/articles.aspx&article10747&cat11|title=Меджлис Туркменистана внёс изменения в административно-территориальное деление города Ашхабада|date=January 5, 2018|access-date=May 24, 2021|archive-date=December 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203221926/http://tdh.gov.tm/news/articles.aspx%26article10747%26cat11|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gundogar-news.com/index.php?category_id=1&news_id=12299|title=Парламент Туркменистана внёс изменения в административно-территориальное деление Ашхабада|date=January 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sng.today/ashkhabad/5651-v-turkmenistane-izmenilis-administrativnye-granicy-ashhabada-i-ahalskogo-regiona.html|title=В Туркменистане изменились административные границы Ашхабада и Ахалского региона|date=January 6, 2018}}</ref><ref name="cci.gov.tm">{{cite web|url=http://cci.gov.tm/index.php/ru/news/turkmenistan-novosti/4745-glava-gosudarstva-podpisal-postanovleniya-o-pereimenovanii-i-strukturnoj-reorganizatsii-nekotorykh-khyakimlikov-akhalskogo-velayata-i-ashkhabada|title=Глава государства подписал Постановления о переименовании и структурной реорганизации некоторых хякимликов Ахалского велаята и Ашхабада|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=July 10, 2018|archive-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709010016/http://cci.gov.tm/index.php/ru/news/turkmenistan-novosti/4745-glava-gosudarstva-podpisal-postanovleniya-o-pereimenovanii-i-strukturnoj-reorganizatsii-nekotorykh-khyakimlikov-akhalskogo-velayata-i-ashkhabada|url-status=dead}}</ref>

# [[Bagtyyarlyk District|Bagtyýarlyk etraby]] (formerly President Niyazov, Lenin District, expanded to include former Ruhabat District plus new territory)
# [[Berkararlyk District|Berkararlyk etraby]] (formerly Azatlyk, Sovetskiy District)
# [[Abadan District|Büzmeýin etraby]] (formerly Abadan District, expanded to include former Arçabil and Çandybil Districts)
# [[Kopetdag District|Köpetdag etraby]] (formerly Proletarskiy District)

This is a reduction from the previous number of boroughs. Arçabil and Çandybil boroughs were merged on February 4, 2015, and the new ''etrap'', named Arçabil, was in turn renamed Büzmeýin in January 2018. At that time the Abadan borough of Ashgabat, created in 2013 by annexing the town of Abadan and surrounding villages to Abadan's south, was abolished and its territory was merged into the newly renamed Büzmeýin borough. The former Ruhabat borough was abolished at the same time and its territory absorbed by Bagtyýarlyk borough.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=4117 |title=Ашхабад прирос новыми территориями |publisher=Государственное информационное агентство Туркменистана |date=2013-05-27 |access-date=2013-11-24 |archive-date=September 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901215802/http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=4117 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 15 June 2020, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov announced intention to create a fifth borough of Ashgabat, to be called Altyn etraby, centered on the new resort zone created on the shores of the former Gurtly Water Reservoir, recently renamed "Golden Lake" (Altyn köl).<ref name=newborough>{{cite web|url=https://www.hronikatm.com/2020/06/golden-lake-project/|title=Бердымухамедов открыл Золотое озеро – очередной грандиозный проект|date=16 June 2020|publisher=Хроника Туркменистана|language=ru}}</ref>{{update inline|date=March 2024}}

===Microdistricts===
Ashgabat's boroughs are subdivided into microdistricts ({{langx|ru|микрорайоны, singular микрорайон}}, {{langx|tk|etrapçalar, singular etrapça}}). These are administrative units that possess no independent governance structures. They are used for management of utilities and publicly owned housing. Ashgabat includes the following microdistricts:

* 1 through 11 Etrapça
* 30 Etrapça
* Howdan A
* Howdan B
* Howdan W
* Parahat 1 through 8<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ashgabat#Microdistricts_of_Ashgabat|title=Ashgabat - OpenStreetMap Wiki|website=wiki.openstreetmap.org}}</ref><ref name=sofitel2>{{cite map|title=Ashgabat |publisher=Ministry of Defense of Turkmenistan Enterprise No. 5 |place=Ashgabat |date=2011}}</ref><ref name=touristmap>{{cite map|title=Tourist Map of Turkmenistan / Ashgabat Map of City Centre |publisher=Ministry of Defense of Turkmenistan Enterprise No. 5 |place=Ashgabat |date=2017}}</ref>