In January 2022, former president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow appeared on state television announcing plans to “close” the ...

Currently, Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell measures roughly 230 feet wide by 100 feet deep, and often exceeds 1,832 degrees ...

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The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand ...

The Darvaza Gas Crater or the Door to Hell, a burning natural gas field, in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. Teresa Otto One of Turkmenistan’s most iconic landmarks, the infamous ‘Door to ...

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it intentionally – but there's no disputing a ~100-foot (~30-m) deep, 226-foot (69-m) ...

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Turkmenistan has successfully reduced the infamous blaze at the Darvaza Gas Crater, known as the 'Gateway to Hell', which has been burning since the 1970s. This massive methane pit, a significant ...

Turkmenistan's government said that they have been able to ‘significantly reduce’ the giant gas field fire at the Darvaza Gas Crater in the Karakum desert The ‘Gateway to Hell’, an ...