Formerly the third-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 …

Feb 6, 2025 · 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 …

Mar 3, 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 …

Mar 7, 2023 · Aral Sea. The Aral Sea, also known as Orol Dengizi (Uzbek) or Aral Tengizi (Kazakh) is a saline lake in Central Asia straddling the boundary between Uzbekistan and …

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 …

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 …

Download scientific diagram | Map of Central Asia indicating the Aral Sea and five states — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. from publication: Salt ...

Physical map illustrates the mountains, lowlands, oceans, lakes and rivers and other physical landscape features of Aral Sea. Differences in land elevations relative to the sea level are …

May 31, 2023 · Map of Aral Sea. This is a customizable image or map of Aral Sea in either vector SVG/EPS, or mapping files such as KML, GeoJSON and Shaepfile formats.

Mar 9, 2025 · Aral Sea Lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan detailed profile, population and facts