A once-vast inland salt lake straddling Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that has shrunk to a small fraction of its former size since the mid twentieth century, after Soviet-era irrigation projects diverted the rivers that fed it. Its retreat is widely cited as one of the starkest human-caused environmental disasters of the modern era.
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1. Aral Sea - Wikipedia
Infobox, coordinates (latitude)
45 N 60 E
Infobox, coordinates (longitude)
45 N 60 E
Infobox, area
area = 68000 km2; (1960, one lake), 28687 km2; (1998, two lakes), 17160 km2
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