 The city is located in an oasis in the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains and on the edge of the Karakum Desert.Bereket is an important strategic railway intersection of the Trans-Caspian Railway (Caspian Sea-Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan) and North-South Transnational Railway (Russia-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Persian Gulf.The city has a large locomotive repair depot and a modern railway station.