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Lowest point: Caspian Sea level: −28 m [1] Highest point: Mount Damavand: 18,403 feet (5,609 m) [1] See also. Extreme points of Earth; Geography of Iran; References
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
Geologically, the Caspian Sea, like the Black and Mediterranean seas, is a remnant of the ancient Tethys Ocean. The deepest area is oceanic rather than continental crust. However, it is generally regarded by geographers as a large endorheic salt lake. Of these registered lakes; 10 have a deepest point above the sea level.
Caspian Sea: tectonic saline, permanent, endorheic 5.5 million 374000 78200 1025 182 Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan: Aral Sea: tectonic saline, permanent 5.5 million 64500 625 67 16 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan: Formerly the fourth largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi). By 1997, it had shrunk to 10% ...
Caspian_Sea_relief_location_map.jpg Module:Location map/data/Caspian Sea is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Caspian Sea . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is also common usage for "the sea". Any large body of water with "Sea" in the name, including lakes. River – a narrow strip of water that flows over land from a higher elevation to a lower one
It is the larger northern part of the wider Aral–Caspian Depression around the Aral and Caspian Seas. The level of the Caspian sea is 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, however several areas in the depression are even lower, and among them Karagiye near Aktau is the lowest at −132 metres (−433 ft).