Aralkum Desert
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The Aralkum Desert is a desert that has appeared since 1960 on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea. It lies to the south and east of what remains of the Eastern Basin Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and K
Aralkum with the remaining areas of the Aral Sea in 2021
Salt structures in Aral Sea, Uzbekistan
Ship Cemetery. Horse and foal, Kazakhstan
The bed of the former Aral Sea in Uzbekistan in 2004
Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a sovereign, doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan
Aralkum Desert
…has appeared since 1960 on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea. It lies to the south and east of what remains of the Eastern Basin Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. It is currently the youngest desert in the world. While the level of the Aral Sea has fluctuated over its existence, the most recent…
Female statuette wearing the kaunakes. Chlorite and limestone, Bactria, beginning of the second millennium BC.
Triumphant crowd at Registan, Sher-Dor Madrasah. The Emir of Bukhara viewing the severed heads of Russian soldiers on poles. Painting by Vasily Vereshchagin (1872).
Two Sart men and two Sart boys in Samarkand, c. 1910
Russian troops taking Samarkand in 1868, by Nikolay Karazin