| Official Name: | Jebel |
| Other Name: | Җебел Джебел (Dzhebel) |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Turkmenistan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Turkmenistan |
| Coordinates: | 39.6308°N 54.2372°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Turkmenistan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | City |
| Subdivision Name1: | Balkan Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | City of Balkanabat |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Utc Offset: | +5 |
Jebel (ru|Джебел, ru|Dzhebel, Cyrillic tk|Җебел) is a town in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan, that is subordinate to the city of Balkanabat.[1] It is the nearest municipality to the Mollagara Sanitorium, which is four kilometers distant.[2]
Jebel means "mountain" in Arabic, and refers in this case to a nearby peak in the Balkhan Range.[3]
Jebel serves as a support and logistics center for oil extraction operations in Balkan Province, particularly on the Cheleken Peninsula. It is also a center for mining and milling of table salt. In 2008 a kaolin plant was opened in Jebel.[4] In 2011 Turkish Polimeks built Turkmenistan's largest cement plant in Jebel, capable of producing one million tons of cement per year.[5] [6] In 2014 a plant was opened for packaging medicinal mud and sea salt.[7]
Four kilometers east of the Jebel train station in the Greater Balkhan range is the Jebel cave, in which A.P. Okladnikov found in 1949-1950 a multilayer archeological site dating from the Mesolithic through the Neolithic and Early Bronze ages.[8]
Jebel is the site of a municipal airport. The airport is scheduled for renovation and upgrading.[9] [10] [11] The airport does not offer scheduled passenger service.[12] Jebel is located at the junction of the M37 highway and the P-17 highway, which leads to the Cheleken Peninsula.[13] The rail line between Türkmenbaşy and Ashgabat passes through Jebel, which has its own rail station.