Turan Depression
The Turan Depression, Turan Lowland or Turanian Basin is a low-lying desert basin region stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Plain
- Description: depression in Central Asia
- Also known as: “Turan Lowland”, “Turan Oypaty”, “Turan Pesligi”, “Turanian Basin”, “Turanskaya Nizmennost’”, and “Turon Pasttekisligi”
Turan Depression
- Categories: plain and landform
- Location: Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Turan Depression” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منخفض طوران”
- Armenian: “Թուրանի դաշտավայր”
- Asturian: “Depresión del Turán”
- Azerbaijani: “Turan ovalığı”
- Bashkir: “Туран уйһыулығы”
- Basque: “Turan sakonunea”
- Basque: “Turango sakonunea”
- Belarusian: “Туранская нізіна”
- Bulgarian: “Туранска низина”
- Catalan: “depressió de Turan”
- Catalan: “Depressió de Turan”
- Catalan: “Depressió turana”
- Catalan: “Depressió turaniana”
- Catalan: “Depressió turànica”
- Catalan: “Depressó de Turan”
- Catalan: “Plana turànica”
- Cebuano: “Turan Oypaty”
- Chinese: “图兰低地”
- Chinese: “图兰平原”
- Chinese: “圖蘭低地”
- Croatian: “Turanska nizina”
- Czech: “Turanská nížina”
- Czech: “Turánská nížina”
- Czech: “Túránská nížina”
- Dutch: “Laagland van Toeran”
- Esperanto: “malaltebenaĵo de Turan”
- Estonian: “Turaani madalik”
- Finnish: “Turanin alanko”
- French: “Dépression de Touran”
- French: “Dépression du Touran”
- Galician: “Depresión de Turan”
- Georgian: “თურანის დაბლობი”
- German: “Tiefland von Turan”
- German: “Turan-Senke”
- Hebrew: “שקע טוראן”
- Hungarian: “Turán-síkság”
- Hungarian: “Turáni-alföld”
- Italian: “Bassopiani dell’Asia centrale”
- Italian: “Bassopiano dell’Asia centrale”
- Italian: “Bassopiano turanico”
- Italian: “Turan”
- Japanese: “トゥラン低地”
- Kazakh: “Turan oýpatı”
- Kazakh: “Тұран ойпаты”
- Kazakh: “تۇران ويپاتى”
- Kirghiz: “Туран ойдуңу”
- Korean: “투란 저지”
- Latin: “Demissio Turanica”
- Latvian: “Turānas līdzenums”
- Lithuanian: “Turano žemuma”
- Macedonian: “Туранска Низина”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لهبطة د طوران”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turan-bekkenet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turan-lavlandet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turan-senkningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turan-sletta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turanbekkenet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turanlavlandet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turansenkningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turansletta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den turanske senkinga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den turanske senkingina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det turanske låglandet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turanskaja inzmennost”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Туранская низменность”
- Norwegian: “Turanbekkenet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Depression de Toran”
- Persian: “پستبوم توران”
- Polish: “Nizina Turańska”
- Portuguese: “Depressão de Turã”
- Russian: “Туранская низменность”
- Serbian: “Turanska nizija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Turanska nizija”
- Slovak: “Turanská nížina”
- Slovenian: “Turansko nižavje”
- Spanish: “Depresion del Turan”
- Spanish: “Depresion del Turán”
- Spanish: “Depresión del Turan”
- Spanish: “Depresión del Turán”
- Swahili: “Nyanda za chini za Turan”
- Swedish: “Turan Oypaty”
- Swedish: “Turanlåglandet”
- Tatar: “Туран түбәнлеге”
- Ukrainian: “Туранська низовина”
- Uzbek: “Turon tekisligi”
- Yue Chinese: “圖蘭低地”
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