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Urmia Lake-Urmu Gölü-Urmiye-Urmiya-دریاچه ارومیه-اورمیه-اورمو گولو

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Lake Urmia (Turkish Language: Urmu Gölü, Urmiye Gölü,)is a salt lake in northwestern South Azerbaijan(Iranian Azerbaijan) near Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea.The lake is named after the provincial capital city of Urmia, originally a Syriac name meaning city of water. It was called Lake Rezaiyeh in the early 1930s after Reza Shah Pahlavi, but the lake was renamed 'Urmia' in the late 1970s.The lake is marked by more than a hundred small rocky islands, which are stopover points in the migrations of various kinds of wild bird life (including flamingos, pelicans, spoonbills, ibises, storks, shelducks, avocets, stilts, and gulls).
Urmia lake is the second salt lake of the world.The population of Urmia is predominantly Turks (over 90%), but with Kurdish,Assyrian and Armenian minorities.

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