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The Aral Sea is a saline endorheic basin¹ in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan(Aktobe and Kyzylorda provinces) in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. The name roughly translates as "Sea of Islands²", referring to more than 1,500 islands that once dotted is waters.
Formerly³ one of the four largest lakes of the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,000 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since⁵ the 1960s after⁶ the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into three lakes- the North Aral Sea and the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea. By⁷ 2009, the south-eastern lake had disappeared and the south-western lake retreated to a thin strip at⁸ the extreme west of the former southern sea. The maximum depth of the North Aral Sea is 42 metres⁹ (138 ft) (as of 2008).
The region's once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed,bringing unemployment and economic hardship¹⁰. The Aral Sea region is also heavily polluted¹¹, with consequent serious public health problems. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.
It has been called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters".