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Aral sea
Meaning
Name
●
A
saline
lake
,
straddling
the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan
border
, that was once large, but
shrank
to a
quarter of
its
original
size
after the Amu Darya and Syr Darya
rivers
, which
previously
flowed
into it, were
diverted
for
irrigation
purposes
during the Soviet era.
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