Aral Sea Before And After

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Aral Sea Before And After, The Aral Sea (Kazakh: ???? ?????? Aral Teñizi; Uzbek: Orol Dengizi; Russian: ????????? ???? Aral’skoye More; Tajik: ????? ???? Bahri Aral; Persian: ?????? ?????? Daryocha-i Khorazm) was an endorheic basin in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan (Aktobe and Kyzylorda provinces) in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. The name roughly translates as “Sea of Islands”, referring to more than 1,500 islands that once dotted its waters.

Once among the four largest lakes of the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,000 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2007 it had declined to 10% of its original size
Aral Sea Before And After