{"id":6169,"date":"2020-05-06T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2020-05-06T00:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:01:25","slug":"the-lake-of-urmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/?p=6169","title":{"rendered":"The Lake of Urmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Lake of Urmia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PANO_20190817_085448-300x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PANO_20190817_085448-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PANO_20190817_085448-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PANO_20190817_085448-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PANO_20190817_085448-600x180.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are many beautiful lakes all around the world which draw the attention of people and animals. The lake of Urmia as one of the largest lakes in Asia has always been an attractive spot to show the beauty of creation through the ages which is nowadays somehow far away from its outstanding beauty due to the mankind\u2019s destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6174\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20190817_092207-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20190817_092207-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20190817_092207-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20190817_092207-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20190817_092207-86x64.jpg 86w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20190817_092207-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6175\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Drying_Lake_Urmia_August_2013_-_\u062f\u0631\u06cc\u0627\u0686\u0647_\u0627\u0631\u0648\u0645\u06cc\u0647\u060c_\u0645\u0631\u062f\u0627\u062f_\u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f2_-_panoramio-1-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Drying_Lake_Urmia_August_2013_-_\u062f\u0631\u06cc\u0627\u0686\u0647_\u0627\u0631\u0648\u0645\u06cc\u0647\u060c_\u0645\u0631\u062f\u0627\u062f_\u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f2_-_panoramio-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Drying_Lake_Urmia_August_2013_-_\u062f\u0631\u06cc\u0627\u0686\u0647_\u0627\u0631\u0648\u0645\u06cc\u0647\u060c_\u0645\u0631\u062f\u0627\u062f_\u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f2_-_panoramio-1-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Drying_Lake_Urmia_August_2013_-_\u062f\u0631\u06cc\u0627\u0686\u0647_\u0627\u0631\u0648\u0645\u06cc\u0647\u060c_\u0645\u0631\u062f\u0627\u062f_\u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f2_-_panoramio-1-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Drying_Lake_Urmia_August_2013_-_\u062f\u0631\u06cc\u0627\u0686\u0647_\u0627\u0631\u0648\u0645\u06cc\u0647\u060c_\u0645\u0631\u062f\u0627\u062f_\u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f2_-_panoramio-1-600x305.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Located in north east of the city of Urmia and between East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan is the sixth-largest saltwater lake on earth. It is around 2000 square meters; 140 to 55 kilometers. Unfortunately around 2017 it had shrunk to 10 percent of its size but after so many environmental struggles this lake could gain its greatness in 2019 once again. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is noticeable that Ur means city and Mia means water in Assyrian terminology which proves that the civilization nearby dates back to more than four thousand years ago. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting this salt lake is a great opportunity to visit a nice environment with a special ecology in which the beautiful scenery beside various species such as archaebacteria, bacteria, microfungi, phytoplankton, Mollusca, reptiles and mammals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most beautiful lake in the middle east&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[750],"tags":[1300,1299,1067,1301],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - 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