🔆Water bodies in Asia
Important water bodies are:
West to East: Red sea, Dead sea, Lake Van, Lake Urmia, Persian gulf, Caspian sea, Aral sea, Lake Balkhash, Lake Baikal etc.
▪️Red sea:
✅Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti.
✅Connected by Suez canal to Mediterranean sea.
✅ It is formed because of Rifting in Arabian peninsula.
✅ Important trade route. High piracy.
✅Strait of Bab Al Mandab connects it with Gulf of Gulf of Aden
▪️Dead sea:
✅ Bordered by Jordan and Israel.
✅ It is a land locked salt lake.
▪️Lake Van:
✅ Lies in Turkey
✅ Most saline water Body in Asia.
▪️ Lake Urmia:
✅ In Iran.
✅A Ramsar site.
▪️ Persian gulf:
✅ Bordered byIran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
✅ Persian gulf and its coastal areas are World’s largest single source of Petroleum.
✅ Strait of Hormuz connects it with Gulf of Oman.
▪️ Caspian sea:
✅ Bordered by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan.
✅ Known for its Mineral wealth.
▪️ Aral sea:
✅ It is Bordered by Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
✅Formerly it was the fourth largest lake in world and now reduced to 1/10th of its size.
▪️Lake Baikal:
✅ It lies in Russia.
✅ It is a Rift lake.
✅ World’s largest Freshwater lake by volume.
