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23 wrz 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. (more)
The Aral Sea (/ ˈærəl /) [ 4 ][ 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.
Aral Sea. 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. Overview. Map.
7 mar 2023 · The Aral Sea is located within the harsh climate region of Central Asia. The area experiences a desert-continental climate, characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and varying diurnal air temperature.
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.
1 cze 2023 · Divided between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea is a salty basin of oceanic origin that originated, like the Caspian and Black Seas, 5 million years ago from the separation of the ancient Parateid, an oceanic basin dating back to the Jurassic period.
Explore Aral Sea in Google Earth.
