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Formerly the fourth-largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
2 lis 2024 · Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its sources of inflowing water for irrigation beginning in the second half of the 20th century.
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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.
Discover expertly selected travel destinations, distinguished by their unique charm and quality. The Aral Sea, what once was the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, and now more aptly dubbed Aralkum, is in Central Asia, divided between Northern Uzbekistan and Southern Kazakhstan.
3 mar 2023 · The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest body of inland water in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 but, as the map dramatically illustrates, it has now shrunk and fragmented to a mere shadow of its former self. It lies between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south.
Media in category "Maps of Aral Sea" The following 49 files are in this category, out of 49 total. - 1848 - 1853 Survey of the Sea of Aral by Bytakoff.jpg 1,960 × 2,600; 2.69 MB
