The Aral Sea · Geographic context
Natural feature · Central Asia
The Aral Sea
Also known as Aral Tengizi, Orol dengizi
Once one of the world's largest lakes, reduced to a fraction of its area after its feeder rivers were diverted for irrigation.
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The Aral Sea is on the atlas, but nobody has written and sourced a full entry for it. Rather than generating one, we are leaving this blank until it can be researched properly. The coverage inventory in the repository tracks what is outstanding.
Themes: Water & environment, Industry & labour, Migration & diaspora