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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Lake Superior is the largest lake on earth only if you do not count the Caspian Sea, which is about five times bigger and is technically a lake despite its high salinity.
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Whether the Caspian Sea is a lake or a sea is a huge political debate between the five bordering countries, because a lake would be split equally and it holds massive natural resources.
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Coordinates: 42.0000, 50.5000