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Aral Sea

The Aral Sea was an endorheic salt lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up into desert by 2007. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan. The name roughly translates from Mongolic and Turkic…

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History

Sergey TolstovKhorezmKhivaTang dynastyMongol Invasion
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Impact on environment, economy, and public health

Ecosystem collapseEcosystemsRiver deltasWeapons testingSoil quality
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Ecology

BiodiversityEndemicSubspeciesSturgeonExtirpation
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Vozrozhdeniya Island

PeninsulaMainlandKokaralBarsa-KelmesBioweapons
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Location
Central Asia (Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan)
Basin countries
Afghanistan · Iran · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Russia
Catchment area
1,549,000 km2 (598,100 mi2)
Max. depth
North: · 42 m (138 ft) (2008) · 30 m (98 ft) (2003) · South: 37–40 m (121–131 ft) (2005) · 102 m (335 ft) (1989)
Primary inflows
North: Syr Darya · South: Groundwater only · Previously: Amu Darya
Surface area
68,000 km2 (26,300 mi2) (1960, one lake) · 28,687 km2 (11,076 mi2) (1998, two lakes) · 17,160 km2 (6,626 mi2) (2004, four lakes) · North: 3,142 km2 (1,210 mi2) (2018) · South: 5,179 km2 (2,000 mi2) (2018)

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Aral Sea

Nodes233
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Triples365
Avg. degree1.99
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Aral Sea

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related to Native fish · 31
Aral Sea → Abramis, Acipenser, Aral, Aspius, Ballerus, Carassius, Chalcalburnus, Cyprinus, Danube, Despite, Esox, Eurasian, European, Gymnocephalus, However, Leuciscus, Luciobarbus, Most, Native, North Aral Sea
related to Naval · 27
Aral Sea → Alexey Butakov, Aral Flotilla, Aralsk, As, Commanded, Constantine, Donbas, Exiled Ukrainian, Fort Aralsk, Haloxylon, Imperial Russian Navy, In, Lt, Mikhail, Military Governor-General, Nikolai, Orenburg, Orenburg Vasily Perovsky, Raimsk, Russian
related to Vozrozhdeniya Island · 25
Aral Sea → Aral, Bacillus, Barsa-Kelmes, Brucella, Coxiella, Due, Francisella, In, Island, Kazakhstan, Kokaral, Other, Rickettsia, Russian, Since, South Aral Sea, Southeast Aral, Soviet, The, Uzbekistan
related to Introduced fish · 24
Aral Sea → All, Atherina, Baltic, Caucasian, Channa, Clupea, Ctenopharyngodon, European, Herring, Hypophtalmichthys, Knipowitschia, Mylopharyngodon, Neogobius, North Aral Sea, Other, Platichthys, Ponticola, Proterorchinus, South Aral Sea, Syngnatus
related to Invertebrates · 24
Aral Sea → Advanced, Aral, Calanipeda, Caspian Sea, Caspiohydrobia, Cerastoderma, Dikerogammarus, Dreissena, Hypanis, Later, Malacostraca, Many, Mediterranean-Atlantic, Mugil, Native, North American, Palaemon, Ponto-Caspian, Prior, Rhithropanopeus
related to Future of South Aral Sea · 20
Aral Sea → Amu Darya, Attempts, Discussions, Ephedra, Haloxylon, Most, North, North Aral Sea, Only, Redirecting, Salsola, South, South Aral, South Aral Sea, Tamarix, The, The South Aral Sea, Unlike Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan's
related to Aral Sea Basin Programme – 3 · 19
Aral Sea → April, Aral Sea Basin, ASBP-3, Direction, Environmental, Heads, Improving, Integrated Use, Interstate, Interstate Commission, National Experts, On, Socio-economic DevelopmentDirection, States, Sustainable Development, The, This Program, Water Coordination, Water ResourcesDirection
related to Irrigation canals · 18
Aral Sea → Amu Darya, Between, Central Asia, Due, Farmers, However, In, It, Large, Many, Only, Qaraqum Canal, Soviet, Syr Darya, This, Though, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan's
related to history · 16
Aral Sea → According, Amu Darya, Aral Sea's, Artificial, Caspian, Chinese Empire, Climate, Geologically, Inflow, Khiva, Khorezm, Sarykamysh, Sergey Tolstov's, Syr Darya, Tang, The Aral Sea
related to Institutional bodies · 16
Aral Sea → According, Amu Darya, BVOs, Central Asia, February, ICWC, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, River, Syr Darya, Tajikistan, The Interstate Commission, The River Basin Organizations, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Water Coordination

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aral sea water north basin south uzbekistan kazakhstan irrigation darya species salinity lake health syr region fish environmental two also

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Aral SeaBasin countriesAfghanistan1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesIran1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesKazakhstan1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesKyrgyzstan1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesRussia1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesTajikistan1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesTurkmenistan1.00infobox
Aral SeaBasin countriesUzbekistan1.00infobox
Aral SeaCatchment area1,549,000 km2 (598,100 mi2)1.00infobox
Aral SeaCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Aral SeaLocationCentral Asia (Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan)1.00infobox
Aral SeaMax. depthNorth:1.00infobox
Aral SeaMax. depth42 m (138 ft) (2008)1.00infobox
Aral SeaMax. depth30 m (98 ft) (2003)1.00infobox
Aral SeaMax. depthSouth: 37–40 m (121–131 ft) (2005)1.00infobox
Aral SeaMax. depth102 m (335 ft) (1989)1.00infobox
Aral SeaPrimary inflowsNorth: Syr Darya1.00infobox
Aral SeaPrimary inflowsSouth: Groundwater only1.00infobox
Aral SeaPrimary inflowsPreviously: Amu Darya1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface area68,000 km2 (26,300 mi2) (1960, one lake)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface area28,687 km2 (11,076 mi2) (1998, two lakes)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface area17,160 km2 (6,626 mi2) (2004, four lakes)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface areaNorth: 3,142 km2 (1,210 mi2) (2018)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface areaSouth: 5,179 km2 (2,000 mi2) (2018)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface elevationNorth: 42 m (138 ft) (2011)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface elevationSouth: 29 m (95 ft) (2007)1.00infobox
Aral SeaSurface elevation53.4 m (175 ft) (1960)1.00infobox
Aral SeaTypeEndorheic, saline, natural lake, reservoir (North)1.00infobox
Aral SeaWater volumeNorth: 21.4 km3 (5 mi3) (2024)1.00infobox

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