Vital Caspian Graphics 2
Petrozavodsk
LADOGA LAKE
ONEGA LAKE
Contents
Saint Petersburg
Syktyvkar
Kotlas
VOLGA-BALTIC CANAL
Berezmki
Vologda
Rybinsk
Kudymkar
a
m
a
K
Kirov
V
Iaroslavl
V
o
o l
g
Perm
a
Tver
l g
Nijni-Taghil
a
Ivanovo
MOSCOW-VOLGA CANAL
Ijevsk
Ioshkar-Ola
a
Nijni-Novgorod
Yekaterinburg
Moscow
m
Smolensk
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V
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l g
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Kazan
Riazan
Tula
Cheliabinsk
Ufa
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Briansk
RUSSIA
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Saransk
o
V
Ulianovsk
Orel
Penza
Magnitogorsk
Samara
Syzran
Tambov
Kursk
Voronezh
D o n
Orenburg
Bielgorod
Saratov
Kharkyv
Orsk
Aktobe
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VOLGA-DON CANAL
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U
KAZAKHSTAN
r a l
UKRAINE
V
Volgograd
Donetsk
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Mariupol
Rostov
A sea of opportunities, aspirations and challenges
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AZOV SEA
m
E
Aralsk
Atyrau
Elista
Astrakhan
Fluctuations in the level of the Caspian Sea
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Krasnodar
Novorossiisk
Stavropol
ARAL SEA
Big projects, big consequences
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Karalkapakia
BLACK SEA
Groznyi Vladikavkaz
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Sukhumi
Aktau
r
e
UZBEKISTAN
T
Makhachkala
Poti
Tskhinvali
The marks of human activity
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Nukus
Daghestan
GEORGIA
Batumi
Derbent
Tbilisi
Dashoguz
CASPIAN SEA
Trabzon
K
u r
Urgench
a
KARA BOGAZ GOL
ARMENIA
Sumgait
Changing population profile
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Yerevan
AZERBAIJAN
Erzurum
K
u r
TURKEY
a
Turkmenbashi
Baku
Nakhichevan NAKHICHEVAN (AZER.)
TURKMENISTAN
Khazar
Balkanabat
KARA-KUM CANAL
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a k
r
A
Ecosystems paying the price
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Gyzyl Arbad
Tabriz
Ashgabad
Mardin
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k
Gasan Kuli
SYRIA
Rasht
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Bender
u
Ramsar
R
Environment and security – a fragile balance
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Mossul
Babol
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Gorgan
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Qazvin
Sari
Mashad
Kirkuk
Topography, metres
Tehran
IRAQ
Below sea level
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IRAN
Baghdad
Ispahan
Ahvaz
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200
400
600
800 km
MAP BY IEVA RUCEVSKA AND PHILIPPE REKACEWICZ - SEPTEMBER 2005
The Caspian Sea runs north and south, extending over 1 200 kilometres, with an average width of 320 kilometres, with 7 000 km coastline. It covers approximately 400 000 square kilometres (an area slightly larger than Germany). The population of the region is about 14 million, distributed over the coastal provinces of five countries: 6.5 million in Iran, 3.9 million in Russia, 2.2 million in Azerbaijan, 0.8 million in Kazakhstan and 0.4 million in Turkmenistan.
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