Ustyurt

/Russian usˈtjurt/

noun

an arid plateau in central Asia, between the Caspian and Aral seas in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Area: about 238 000 sq km (92 000 sq miles)

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On the western frontier of the desert it forms a declivity as steep as the Kaflankir, or the whole table-land of ustyurt.

Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Arminius Vmbry

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