Was a lake laying between Kazakhstan(Aktobe and Kyzylorda provinces) and Uzbekistan(Karakalpakstan Region)
Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,300 sq mi)
What has happened
the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it (Syr-Darya and Amu-Darya) were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.(see figure 2)
By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size