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South: 29 m (95 ft) (2007) 53.4 m (175 ft) (1960) [3] The Aral Sea (/ ˈærəl /) [4][a] was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the ...
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
The drainage basin of the lake is about 413,000 km 2; [12] [15] with 15% in the north-west of Xinjiang in China and a negligible part from mountains along the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. Lake Balkhash thus takes 86% of water inflow from Balkhash-Alakol basin. Lake Balkhash in April 2023; Winter ice melting causes the turquoise color.
The Amu Darya drainage basin is in orange, and the Syr Darya basin in yellow. The Amu Darya (/ ˌɑːmuː ˈdɑːrjə / AH-moo DAR-yə), [a] also shortened to Amu and historically known as the Oxus (/ ˈɒksəs / OK-səs), [2][b] is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart. [5] At 636 km (395 mi) long and 79 km (49 mi) wide, Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi), and is the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 fathoms).
Pangong Tso. Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (Tibetan: ; [ 3 ] Chinese : 班公错; pinyin : Bān gōng cuò; Hindi: पैंगोंग झील, romanized:Paiṅgoṅg jhīl) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet situated at an elevation of 4,225 m (13,862 ft). It is 134 km (83 mi) long and divided into five sublakes ...
The Malaysia–Thailand border divides the sovereign states of Malaysia and Thailand and consists of a land boundary running for 595 km (370 mi) across the Malay Peninsula and maritime boundaries in the Straits of Malacca and the Gulf of Thailand / South China Sea. The Golok River forms the easternmost 95 km stretch of the land border.
Paektu Mountain or Baekdu Mountain (Korean : 백두산) is an active stratovolcano on the Chinese–North Korean border. [ 3 ] In China, it is known as Changbai Mountain (Chinese : 长白山). At 2,744 m (9,003 ft), it is the tallest mountain in North Korea and Northeast China and the tallest mountain of the Baekdu-daegan and Changbai mountain ...