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The Aral Sea (/ ˈærəl /) [5][a] was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan.
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2 lis 2024 · Aral Sea Animated map of the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It straddles the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. Discover how water projects begun under Soviet rule led to the rapid evaporation of the Aral Sea An overview of the shrinkage of the Aral Sea.
LIVE weather satellite images of the shrinking Aral Sea, and Aralkum Desert.
A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of recovery in the Northern Aral Sea.
7 mar 2023 · A detailed map of the Aral Sea. A ruined Urga fishing village at the shore of Sudochye lake aka part of former Aral Sea at Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. The depression, later filled with water and became the Aral Sea, formed in the late Neogene Period, about 2.6 million years ago.
The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1970s, and has lost a massive portion of its coverage.
