Ustyurt Plateau

Ustyurt Plateau

Kazak  Üstirt , Turkmen  Üstyurt 

      plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya (river) delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazköl; an inlet of the Caspian Sea) in the west. It has an area of about 77,000 square miles (about 200,000 square km) and an average elevation of about 500 feet (about 150 m), rising to a maximum of 1,200 feet (365 m) in the southwest. At its edges it drops steeply to the Aral Sea and the surrounding plain. The plateau consists of a monotonous desert which provides meagre pasture for camels and sheep. Oil and natural-gas deposits lie west of the plateau.

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