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sea term used as synonymous with ocean , or a subdivision of an ocean (Caribbean Sea, Yellow Sea), or erroneously designating a large salt lake (Caspian Sea, Dead Sea, Aral Sea).... Read more |
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Aral Sea
Aral Sea , salt lake, SW Kazakhstan and NW Uzbekistan, E of the Caspian Sea in an area of interior drainage. To the north and west are the edges of the arid Ustyurt Plateau; the Kyzyl Kum desert stretches to the southeast. As recently as the 1970s it was the world's fourth largest lake, c.26,000 sq... Read more |
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Kara Kum
Kara Kum , two deserts, one in Kazakhstan and one in Turkmenistan. The Caspian Kara Kum or Garagum, the larger desert (c.115,000 sq mi/297,900 sq km), is W of the Amu Darya River and includes most of Turkmenistan. The Murghab and Tejen rivers flow out of the Hindu Kush Mts. to the south and empty... Read more |
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Amu Darya
Amu Darya or Amudarya , river, c.1,600 mi (2,580 km) long, formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Pandj rivers, which rise in the Pamir Mts. of central Asia. It flows generally northwest, marking much of the northern border of Afghanistan with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan before... Read more |
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Syr Darya
Syr Darya or Syrdarya , ancient Jaxartes or Yaxartes, Pers. Sihun, river, c.1,380 mi (2,220 km) long, flowing through Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. One of the principal rivers of central Asia, it is formed in the Fergana Valley , E Uzbekistan, by the junction of the Naryn and... Read more |
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Turkistan
Turkistan or Turkestan , historic region of central Asia. Western, or Russian, Turkistan extended from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Chinese frontier in the east and from the Aral-Irtysh watershed in the north to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the south. Eastern, or Chinese,... Read more |
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan or Kazakstan , officially Republic of Kazakhstan, republic (2005 est. pop. 15,186,000), c.1,050,000 sq mi (2,719,500 sq km), central Asia. It borders on Siberian Russia in the north, China in the east, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south, and the Caspian Sea and... Read more |
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duckweed
duckweed any plant of the genus Lemna and sometimes of related genera. Duckweeds are tiny floating or submerged aquatic plants with reduced or obsolete roots. They flower only rarely, and their flowers are small and inconspicuous. Duckweeds grow in freshwater throughout most of the world. They... Read more |
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Karakalpaks
Karakalpaks PRONUNCIATION: kar-uh-kuhl-PAKS ALTERNATE NAMES: Qoraqolpoqlar LOCATION: Uzbekistan (territory of Karakalpakistan); Kazakstan; Russia; Turkmenistan POPULATION: 350,000 LANGUAGES: Karakalpak; Russian RELIGION: Islam (Sunni Muslim) 1 • INTRODUCTION The Karakalpaks (who... Read more |
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Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , Uzbek Ozbekiston, officially Republic of Uzbekistan, republic (2005 est. pop. 26,851,000), 173,552 sq mi (449,500 sq km), central Asia. The republic borders on Afghanistan in the south, on Turkmenistan in the southwest, on Kazakhstan in the west and north, and on Kyrgyzstan and... Read more |
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Aral Sea challenge to Kazakhstan.
...transnational Aral Sea Operating Company. Aral Sea Operating...fields in the Aral Sea on a product...transnational Aral project joined...Uzbekistan may become more attractive...investors ... |
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Lake Balkash: an Aral trend-follower in the making - Lake of legend under...
...dedicated to the Aral Sea and the ailing...himself into a vast sea. Ile and Karatal...not much time to become frightened, for...flowed into the sea miles apart from one another. Hidden from...peculiarity as the ... |
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When rivers don't run to the sea ... the earth spins faster and days shorten.
...perturbations become apparent...air, and seas. Together...and draining another. Thus the...erosion into the sea or undersea...Earth has become a more wobbly...up of the Aral and Caspian Seas ... |
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Environmental awakening in the Soviet Union.
...Baltic, and Aral seas because...there was another typhoid outbreak...figures. The Caspian and Aral seas are so polluted...have become extremely...said. The Caspian Sea, the ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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DEEP TROUBLE
...debate has become of more than...pumped into the sea - although...flowing into the sea is being estimated...back into the seas. But other...the oceans. Another influence...levels of the Caspian and Aral ... |
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Karakalpak separatists dream of breaking away from Uzbekistan.
...Community was another strategy taken...organization and enter another one. However...natural gas at the Aral Seas bottom can become a stimulating...independence. The Aral Sea is becoming a...analogue of the ... |
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UZBEKISTAN: IS OLD GERM-WARFARE TEST SITE A TICKING TIME BOMB?
...Island in the Aral Sea,except that...thedrying up of the Aral. "Vozrozhdeniye...weapons. The Aral Sea was once the...after the Caspian Sea between Europe...purposes. The Aral ... |
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KAZAKHSTAN - E&P Background & Exploration.
...not far from the Caspian Sea. Exploration during...companies having become a vital source of...pipeline to the Yellow Sea (see Part 3...foreign companies. Another case in point is...an area near the Aral ... |
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Another terror in the making. (book review)
...mountain, steppe and desert from the Caspian Sea to the Chinese frontier, is one...the toxic dustbowl known as the Aral Sea. At the collapse of the Soviet Union...the heart of central Asia, could become the new cockpit of Islamic ... |
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Kazakhstan.(Country Profile)(Country overview)
...by road quickly become very uncomfortable...Siberia to the Caspian Sea sits vast oil...the 1930s and another half a million...Mongol tribes, had become a minority in...defects. The Aral, which used to...largest inland ... |
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