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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Eurasia Canal, Khachmaz Rayon, Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli, Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, Kashagan Field, Mozdok - Makhachkala - Kazi Magomed pipeline, Baku-Batumi pipeline, Ashrafi field, Dan Ulduzu field, Chirag oil field, Caspian Flotilla, Sangachal Terminal, South Caucasus Pipeline, Yuri Korchagin field, Bahar oilfield, Trans-Caspian Oil Transport System, Umid gas field, Gum Deniz oilfield, Shafag-Asiman, Karabakh oilfield, Turkmenba y, Turkmenistan, Gunashli oilfield, Shah Deniz gas field, Baku-Supsa Pipeline, Persian sturgeon, North Absheron Operating Company, Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline, Baku International Sea Trade Port, Azeri oilfield, Volga Delta, Caspian Depression, Garabogazkol, Khvalynskoye gas field, Kazi Magomed - Astara - Abadan pipeline, Starry sturgeon, Kurmangazy oil field, Kutum, Nakhichevan field, North-South Transport Corridor, Caspian International Petroleum Company, Abaskun, Darwin Bank, Lankaran Lowland, Miankaleh peninsula, Aral-Caspian Depression, Kur-Araz Lowland, Bay of Baku, Kizlyar Bay, Mangyshlak Peninsula. Excerpt: The Caspian Sea (Azerbaijani: , Persian: , Russian: , Kazakh: , Chechen: , Turkmen: ) is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km (143,200 sq mi) (not including Garabogazkol Aylagy) and a volume of 78,200 km (18,800 cu mi). It is in an endorheic basin (it has no outflows) and is bounded to the north by Russia, to the south by Iran, western Azerbaijan, and eastern Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The ancient inhabitants of its littoral perceived the Caspian Sea as an ocean, probably because of its saltiness and seeming boundlessness. It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third the salinity of most seawater. The Caspian Sea has...
