Aral Sea

The Aral Sea (Kazakh: ???? ??????) is an endorheic inland sea in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. Since the 1960s, the Aral Sea has been shrinking, as the rivers that feed it (the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya) were diverted by the USSR for irrigation. The Aral Sea is badly polluted, largely as the result of weapons testing, industrial projects, and fertilizer runoff before the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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Kazakh: Kazakh may refer to...

Endorheic: In geography, an endorheic basin is a watershed from which there is no outflow of water (either on the surface as rivers, or underground by flow or diffusion through rock or permeable material). The term has Greek roots, endo, "inside" and rhein, "to flow". Any rain (or other precipitation) that f...

Sea: A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake without a natural outlet, but the term was applied to it anyway. The term is used col...

Aral Sea related Images and Photos (experimental)

A Ship That Has Been Grounded Because of the Receded Shore of the Aral Sea Nunyak Uzbekistan	Sea	Sea City	Sea Foam
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