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Lake Urmia

Kumari Sonali

Lake Urmia:

After the communal prayer in Tehran, the government mounts cloud seeding in the lake Urmia basin.It is one of the largest inland lakes located in Iran.
It is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world.The main affluents are the Talkheh River in the northeast and the twin rivers Zarīneh and Sīmīneh in the south.It is designated as is a Ramsar Site and part of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB).

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