The Aral Sea is located in the ‘Turan Lowland’ or ‘Aral Sea Basin’ which stretches from close to the Caspian Sea to the Tian Shan mountains. In between is this low-lying land, close to sea level at Aral and as low as 200 meters below sea level in the Caspian Sea. But as for its water, the only seaworthy survivors were the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea.