[5] The region's sunny weather and abundance of water resources help produce high-quality long-staple cotton.

In that same year, the settlements at Çärjew and Kerki were formally assigned to the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, along with the western parts of the Khiva khanate along the Amu Darya.

[9] A local human rights website, Turkmen.news, reported that many people were admitted to the regional hospital in Türkmenabat after suffering injuries.

[14][15] In the list below, the lone city with "district status" is bolded: Crop production in Lebap is heavily dependent on irrigation from the Amu Darya.

Fields are cultivated when one-and-a-half to two meters above the floodplains of the river, primarily cereal grains and cotton.

From antiquity, local residents quarried sulfur, zinc and lead in the Köýtendag (Kungitang) foothills for domestic needs, including casting of bullets.

[21] During the Soviet period, a lead mine was dug and the town of Svintsovyy Rudnik[22] was founded.

[25][26] The Zerger power plant under construction by Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, and Rönesans Holding in Çärjew District will have a design capacity of 432 megawatts.