Lake Urmia in 1998/2011 (IMAGE)

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Lake Urmia in 1998/2011

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Lake Urmia (also Orumiyeh or Orumieh) in northwestern Iran is one of the world's largest landlocked salt lakes, but it is shrinking. These images from the NASA Landsat 5 satellite show the lake in 1998 (left) and 2011 (right) ©NASA Earth Observatory

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