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Kow Ata

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Kow Ata (also The Bakharlyn) is an underground lake in an eponymous cave near Bäherden in Turkmenistan, at the foot of the Kopet Dag. It is the largest in Commonwealth of Independent States.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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