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Aral Sea

The Aral Sea, what once was the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, and now more aptly dubbed Aralkum, is in , divided between and .
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: former lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Aral’skoe Sea”, “Aral’skoye More”, “Orol Dengizi”, and “the sea of Aral”

Aral Sea

Latitude of center
45° north
Longitude of center
60° east
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1526250
Wiki­data ID
Q35883
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Aral Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aralmeer”
  • Albanian: “Deti Aral”
  • Amharic: “አራል ባሕር”
  • Arabic: “بحر آرال”
  • Arabic: “بحر أرال”
  • Arabic: “بحر الأرال”
  • Arabic: “بحر الارال”
  • Arabic: “بحر الاورال”
  • Arabic: “بحر خوارزم”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة آرال”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة خوارزم”
  • Aragonese: “Mar d’Aral”
  • Armenian: “Արալի ծով”
  • Armenian: “Արալյան ծով”
  • Asturian: “Mar d’Aral”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aral dənizi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aral gölü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük (Şimal) Aral”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiçik (Cənub) Aral”
  • Balinese: “Segara Aral”
  • Bashkir: “Арал диңгеҙе”
  • Basque: “Aral itsasoa”
  • Basque: “Aral lakua”
  • Belarusian: “Аральскае мора”
  • Bengali: “আরাল সাগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “अरल सागर”
  • Bosnian: “Aralsko jezero”
  • Breton: “Mor Aral”
  • Bulgarian: “Аралско море”
  • Burmese: “အေရယ်ပင်လယ်”
  • Catalan: “mar d’Aral”
  • Catalan: “Mar d’Aral”
  • Cebuano: “Aral Sea”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای ئاڕاڵ”
  • Chinese: “Aral Hái”
  • Chinese: “咸海”
  • Chinese: “鹹海”
  • Chuvash: “Арал тинĕсĕ”
  • Croatian: “Aralsko jezero”
  • Croatian: “Aralsko more”
  • Czech: “Aral”
  • Czech: “Aralské jezero”
  • Czech: “Aralské moře”
  • Danish: “Aral sø”
  • Danish: “Aralsøen”
  • Dutch: “Aralmeer”
  • Dutch: “Aralzee”
  • Dutch: “Kleine zee”
  • Dutch: “Oostelijke grote zee”
  • Dutch: “Westelijke grote zee”
  • Esperanto: “Aral-lago”
  • Esperanto: “Arala lago”
  • Esperanto: “Arala Maro”
  • Esperanto: “Aralo”
  • Estonian: “Araal”
  • Estonian: “Araali järv”
  • Estonian: “Araali meri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Aral Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Araljärvi”
  • French: “Aral”
  • French: “mer d’Aral”
  • French: “Mer d’Aral”
  • Galician: “Mar de Aral”
  • Georgian: “არალი”
  • Georgian: “არალის ზღვა”
  • Georgian: “არალის ტბა”
  • German: “Aral-See”
  • German: “Aralsee”
  • Greek: “Αράλ”
  • Greek: “Αράλη”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Αράλη”
  • Guarani: “Para Aral”
  • Gujarati: “અરાલ સમુદ્ર”
  • Hebrew: “ימת אראל”
  • Hebrew: “ימת ארל”
  • Hindi: “अरल सागर”
  • Hindi: “अरल”
  • Hungarian: “Aral-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Aralvatn”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Aral”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Aral”
  • Irish: “Muir Aral”
  • Italian: “Lago Aral”
  • Italian: “lago d’Aral”
  • Italian: “Lago d’Aral”
  • Italian: “Lago di Aral”
  • Italian: “Mar d’Aral”
  • Italian: “Mare d’Aral”
  • Italian: “Piccolo Aral”
  • Japanese: “アラル海”
  • Japanese: “咸海”
  • Japanese: “小アラル海”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aral ten’izi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aral ten’izinin‘ qısqasha tariyxı”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aral teńizi”
  • Kazakh: “Aral Tengizi”
  • Kazakh: “Арал теңізі”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្រ អារ៉ាល់”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្រអារ៉ាល់”
  • Kirghiz: “Арал деңизи”
  • Korean: “아랄해”
  • Lak: “Арал хьхьири”
  • Lao: “ທະເລອາຣັນ”
  • Latin: “Lacus Oxianus”
  • Latin: “Mare Aral”
  • Latvian: “Aral tenizi”
  • Latvian: “Arāla jūra”
  • Latvian: “Arāls”
  • Latvian: “Orol dengizi”
  • Latvian: “Арал теңізі”
  • Literary Chinese: “鹹海”
  • Lithuanian: “Aralo ežeras”
  • Lithuanian: “Aralo jūra”
  • Lombard: “Laach de Aral”
  • Lombard: “Lach de Aral”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Aralski jazor”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aral-Séi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aralséi”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Aral”
  • Macedonian: “Аралско Езеро”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasin’ i Aral”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasin’i Araly”
  • Malay: “Laut Aral”
  • Malayalam: “Aral Sea”
  • Malayalam: “അരാൽ കടൽ”
  • Malayalam: “അരാൾ തടാകം”
  • Malayalam: “ആറൽ കടൽ”
  • Marathi: “अरल समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “آرال”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gèng-hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aral Hái”
  • Mingrelian: “არალიშ ზუღა”
  • Mongolian: “Арал тэнгис”
  • Nepali: “अरल सागर”
  • Newari: “अराल सागर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aral Sia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aral-Sia”
  • Northern Sami: “Araljávri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aralsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aral Tengizi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aralsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aralskoje more”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darjotsja-i Khorazm”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orol dengizi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Арал Теңізі”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Аральскοе мοре”
  • Norwegian: “Aralsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar d’Aral”
  • Oriya: “ଅରଳ ସାଗର”
  • Ossetian: “Аралы денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰਾਲ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰਾਲ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریاچه آرال”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ آرال”
  • Persian: “دریاچه ارال”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ ارال”
  • Persian: “دریاچه خوارزم”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ خوارزم”
  • Persian: “دریای آرال”
  • Persian: “دریای ارال”
  • Persian: “دریای خوارزم”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Aralskie”
  • Polish: “Morze Aralskie”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Aral”
  • Pushto: “آرال سمندرګی”
  • Quechua: “Aral qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Aral”
  • Romanian: “Marea Aral”
  • Russia Buriat: “Арал тэнгис”
  • Russian: “Аральское море”
  • Russian: “Аральское озеро”
  • Russian: “Гибнущий Арал”
  • Samogitian: “Arala jūra”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱨᱟᱞ ᱥᱟ.ᱢᱩᱫᱽ”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱨᱟᱞ ᱫᱚᱨᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Mare de Aral”
  • Scots: “Aral Sea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Muir Aral”
  • Serbian: “Аралско језера”
  • Serbian: “Аралско језеро”
  • Serbian: “Аралско море”
  • Serbian: “Аральскοе мοре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aralsko jezero”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aralsko more”
  • Sicilian: “Mari d’Aral”
  • Sinhala: “ඇරල් මුහුද”
  • Slovak: “Aralské jazero”
  • Slovak: “Aralské more”
  • Slovenian: “Aralsko jezero”
  • Slovenian: “Aralsko morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرال گؤلو”
  • Spanish: “mar de Aral”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Aral”
  • Swahili: “Aral”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Aral”
  • Swedish: “Aralsjön”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Aral”
  • Tajik: “Арал”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри Арал”
  • Tamil: “ஆரல் கடல்”
  • Tamil: “ஏரல் கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Арал диңгезе”
  • Telugu: “అరల్ సముద్రం”
  • Thai: “Aral Sea”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบอารัล”
  • Thai: “ทะเลอารัล”
  • Turkish: “Aral Denizi”
  • Turkish: “Aral Gölü”
  • Tuvinian: “Арал далайы”
  • Uighur: “ئارال دېڭىزى”
  • Uighur: “شور دېڭىز”
  • Ukrainian: “Арал”
  • Ukrainian: “Аральське море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aralski jězor”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ ارال”
  • Urdu: “بحیرۂ ارال”
  • Urdu: “بحیرۂ خوارزم”
  • Urdu: “جھیل ارال”
  • Uzbek: “Orol dengizi”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Aral”
  • Walloon: “Mer d‘ Aral”
  • Walloon: “Mer d’ Aral”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aral Sea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Aral”
  • Welsh: “Môr Aral”
  • Western Frisian: “Aralmar”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارال سمندر”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحیرہ ارال”
  • Wu Chinese: “咸海”
  • Yakut: “Арал байҕала”
  • Yiddish: “אראל ים”
  • Yue Chinese: “Aral Sea”
  • Yue Chinese: “鹹海”
  • Zeeuws: “Aralmeêr”
  • “Arala jūra”
  • “अरल सागर”

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