Aral Sea Aral Sea The Aral Sea () was an endorheic lake (one with no outflow) lying between Kazakhstan (Aktobe and Kyzylorda Regions) in the north and Uzbekistan (Karakalpakstan autonomous region) in the south. The name roughly translates as "Sea of Islands", referring to over 1,100 islands that had dotted its waters; in the Turkic languages "aral" means "island, archipelago". The Aral Sea drainage basin encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Iran. Formerly the fourth-largest lake in the world with an area of , the Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that
Uzbekistan national football team "Turonliklar / Туронликлар"; Russian "Туранцы / Turantsi"), because the current country of Uzbekistan is located in the center of this ancient region Turan, and all the ancient and major cities of this region are located in this country, and therefore Uzbekistan is considered by some to be the successor of the Turan. The main rivals of the Uzbekistan national football team are the Central Asian countries, especially the national teams of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. Matches between Central Asian countries have always aroused great interest among Central Asian fans. Football is one of the instruments of rivalry between the