Aral Sea

 [ar-uhl; Russ. uh-rahl]  

Aral Sea

   [ar-uhl; Russ. uh-rahl]
noun
an inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, E of the Caspian Sea. 26,166 sq. mi. (67,770 sq. km).
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Also called Lake Aral.
Russian, A·ral·sko·ye Mo·re  [uh-rahl-skuh-yuh maw-ryuh] .
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Aral Sea (ˈærəl)
 
—n
Also called: Lake Aral a lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, east of the Caspian Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world: shallow and saline, now badly polluted; use of its source waters for irrigation led to a loss of over 50% of its area between 1967 and 1997, after which the reduction began to be slowed. Area originally (to 1960) about 68 000 sq km (26 400 sq miles); water area reduced by 2004 to about 17 158 sq km (6625 sq miles) and the lake divided into sections

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