D Dambal Island* – located near the eastern coast of the Aral, 15 km to the south of the Kokarev Cape, concealing Karatma Bay (see) to the west. A wide strait formed between Biiktau (see) and D. Islands leading to Karatma Bay. The island is low, in some places inundated with water. | D Dambal Island - located near the eastern coast of the Aral 15 km to the south of the Kokarev Cape concealing Karatma Bay see to the west. A wide strait formed between Biiktau see and D. Islands leading to Karatma Bay. The island is low in some places inundated with water. Darya Derya - a big full-flowing river sea Persian . Great rivers and sometimes bays - Syrdarya Karadarya Amudarya and others - are referred to in this way in Central Asia. Daryalyk Kunyadarya - one of the western dried riverbeds that is clearly seen and traced along the whole Amudarya delta. The D. riverbed is more recent and has a definite form of a meandering hollow that cuts into the Sarykamysh depression like a canyon up to 50 m deep through which the Amudarya waters flowed. In 1878 the waters broke through for the last time resulting in the formation of a lake 8 m deep. Dashoguzsky Velajat former Tashauz Region - one of 5 vilajats in Turkmenistan that was renamed in 1999. Belongs to the zone of the Aral ecological crisis or Turkmen Circum-Aral area see . Located in the north of the country. On the north north-west and north-east it borders on the Republic of Uzbekistan on the west it borders Balkansky vilajat on the south it borders Akhalsky vilajat and on the east it borders Lebansky vilajat. Its area is thou sq. km and has a population of thou people 2002 . The center of . is Dashoguz former Tashauz . Practically the whole territory of the vilajat is covered by the Karakum Desert. In the north-west the greatest part of Sarykamysh Lake is located. The Amudarya River flows along its eastern border. Being not far from . this vilajat has experienced all of the consequences of the sea s drying. The greater part of its population is Uzbek. The climate here is sharply continental and arid. Annual precipitations is less than 100 mm. The average annual temperature varies from 11 C to 13 C. The coldest month is January with an average temperature of -6 C the absolute minimum is
