The most interesting and amazing facts about the Caspian sea, which you did not know.
As you know, the Caspian sea is the world’s largest closed body of water, while at the same time, its dimensions are even larger than some other seas.
Most interestingly, scientists still are debating about the fact whether the Caspian sea is a lake or a sea. To the North of the lake stretched more than 1,000 kilometers, and East to 435.
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2. Depth: At the deepest point of the Caspian sea water surface from the bottom are separated by the distance more than a kilometer (1025 m).
3. The water level in the Caspian sea are unstable, but there is a tendency to its reduction.
4. The Caspian sea is located on the border of Europe and Asia.
5. The water of the Caspian sea wash five States, and Russia belongs to the lowest among other countries in the area of its coastline
6. There is a scientific theory that the Black and Caspian seas were the one about ten thousand years ago.
7. Most of the water in the Caspian sea brings the Volga river.
8. In the waters of the Caspian sea there are more than hundred different species of fish. In fact it is not so much — for example, in the Lena river fish species — more. —
9. In the Caspian sea produces nine tenths of all produced in the world black caviar. The most expensive caviar is “Almas” Beluga caviar albino occasionally exported from Iran. Packed in jars of pure gold
10. The water in the Caspian sea is fully updated every quarter for thousands of years.
11. The largest white sturgeon caught in Russia in 1921, holds the palm still. She weighed in at 1224 kg and was caught in the Caspian sea. The giant fish was filled with eggs. Photo the biggest white sturgeon is simply amazing. The king-fish is comparable in size to sea monsters: sharks, killer whales, narwhals.
12. The area of the Caspian sea larger than the area of Japan and slightly smaller than the area of Germany. The area is currently about 371 000 sq km —
13. If you count the Caspian sea it is a lake, not the sea, it will be the third depth, behind the first two seats to the lakes Baikal and Tanganyika
14. In sea is home to 850 animal species. The most unique animal of the Caspian sea is the Caspian seal. The Caspian seal in the past years can be easily found in the waters of the entire sea. Locals even claim that while bathing in the sea or fishing, you can easily see seals swimming nearby. At the moment the population of the Caspian seal has decreased 10 times, and the view is on the verge of extinction.
15. Again, if you consider the Caspian sea a lake, the lake it will be the largest on Earth.
