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Children playing volleyball in a village near Urmia Lake
December 29, 2015 , IRANUrmia city is the heart of volleyball in Iran. The children from this region love playing volleyball. The children are waiting for their playmates, standing on the roots of apricot tree which has been dried up due to salt winds. Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iranian Azerbaijan, Iran and near Iran's border with Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan in Iran, and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea. At its full size, it was the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth largest saltwater lake on earth. The lake has shrunk to 10% of its former size due to damming of the rivers that flow into it and pumping of groundwater from the area.
Photo: Jalal Shamsazaran / IRAN IMAGES