
The Caspian Sea is a inland sea locked and locate between Asia and Europe.There are many countries around it as Russia,Iran,Turkmenistan etc.The middle-asia surround the north&east of it.
里海位於亞洲與歐洲之間,是一個被陸地封鎖了的內陸海。環繞裏海的國家有:俄羅斯 (達吉斯坦、卡爾梅亞, 阿斯特拉罕)、阿塞拜疆、伊朗 (馬贊德蘭省)、土庫曼斯坦及哈薩克斯坦, 中亞大草原環繞著里海北部和東部。

The Caspian Sea is one of the smallest sea in the world.In the fact it is a sea and lake.And it's the largest inland body of water in the world and have a area of 371.000 sq.km.
里海是世界上最小的海之一。實際上,根據科學家的定義,里海同時具有海和湖的特征。里海是世界上最大的內陸水體。里海面積371,000 平方公里 (143000 平方英里).

The Caspian holds a great amount of sturgeon, which yield eggs that are processed into caviar. Overfishing threatens the sturgeon population, to the point that environmentalists advocate banning sturgeon fishing completely until the population recovers.
里海生產大量的鱘魚,這些鱘魚可以加工成魚子醬。因為過度的捕撈鱘魚威脅到這種魚類的數量,所以環保工作者們提倡禁止捕撈鱘魚直到鱘魚數量回升。
Potentially huge oil fields also lie underneath the Caspian Sea. The main problem is the status of the Caspian Sea and the establishment of the water boundaries between the five riparian countries. The level of the Caspian has fallen and risen many times over the centuries. Some Russian historians claim that a medieval rising of the Caspian caused the coastal towns of Khazaria, such as Atil, to flood. The Volga River and the Ural River discharge into the Caspian Sea.
在里海的底部存在了巨大的石油能源。主要的問題就是里海的位置和五個繞里海國家的水分界線的劃分。在過去的時間里海的水位不斷的增長和下降,一些俄羅斯的歷史學家提出了一個中世紀的導致里海水位增長的原因。伏爾加河以及烏拉爾河都有流入里海。

一萬多年前,里海曾與黑海、地中海相連,海水彼此溝通。后經地殼運動,地形發生了明顯的變化,高加索山和厄爾布爾土山的崛起,把里海與海洋分離開了,從而形成今日這個內陸湖。里海是咸水湖,平均鹽度為千分之11至13。
里海的衛星圖片,圖中白線交叉處為阿塞拜疆首都巴庫。左上角為伏爾加河入湖處
