Tag Archives: Uzbekistan

Moynaq, Uzbekistan - August 2012. Once a center of industrial fishing with a population of 150 thousand and Uzbekistan's only port city, Moynaq is now a village of 2 thousand people. The fish factory closed in 1979 and today nothing remains of the port. There was once the fourth largest...

Once the world’s fourth-largest saline body of water with an area of 68,000 km2, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s.