Caspian Sea
About Caspian Sea
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. An endorheic basin, it is situated in both 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. It covers a surface area of 371,000 km2 (143,244 sq mi), an area similar to Japan, with a volume of 78,200 km3 (19,000 cu mi). It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third of the salinity of average seawater. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast. The name of the Caspian Sea is derived from the ancient Iranic Caspi people.
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There was a massive meeting in 2018 called the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, where all the countries met, and they were there for weeks and they concluded it's neither a lake nor a sea.
from 593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 at 00:24:48 · read transcript
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Lake Superior is the largest lake on earth, but only if you don't count the Caspian Sea, which is about five times bigger. It's really interesting the Caspian Sea controversy because Caspian Sea is technically a lake, I believe, as in it's not connected to the sea, but it has higher salinity than almost any other lake. It's a huge political debate between Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, which all border this lake slash sea, because if it's a lake, you split it equally.
No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 · listen
Great Lakes are all shared between the US and Canada, except one, Lake Michigan. Lake Superior is the largest lake on earth, but only if you don't count the Caspian Sea, which is about five times bigger. It's really interesting the Caspian Sea controversy because Caspian Sea is technically a lake, I believe, as in it's not connected to the sea, but it has higher salinity than almost any other lake.
No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 · listen
It's an amazing industry in America. Fucking sniff-a-cat, which is, it looks like a bit of research left over from the elephant research from an hour ago. This was in Russia. There was a lot of smuggling, or was a lot of smuggling, in the Caspian Sea. They would come to a checkpoint, and people would try and get it through on their cars. They found that that was a big problem.
288: No Such Thing As An Elephant In The Airport, 2019-09-27 · listen
Then they weren't allowed to fly over any countries, because basically they're carrying this massive nuclear bomb. I think Kazakhstan is landlocked. Yeah, they had to get to the nearest sea possible. They had to literally jump from like Caspian Sea over hardly any land. Because of that, it ended up being the longest flight ever that the US had done. They had to do loads of in-flight refuelling, because obviously they didn't have enough fuel to do this massively long flight.
386: No Such Thing As Enough Bathtubs, 2021-08-13 · listen
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