Round 3: Tossup 1

This body of water is home to Neft Daşları (“NEFT-dahsh-LAR-ih”), an industrial town located on the world’s first offshore oil platform. A dictator who wrote the Ruhnama renamed a city on this body of water (15[1])after himself in 1993. This body of water borders a country that contains over half of the world’s mud (-5[1])volcanoes, (15[1])many of which are protected by the Gobustan Reserve. On this body of water, the (*) Absheron (10[1])Peninsula is home to the lowest-lying national capital in the world. Bounded to the south by the Alborz mountains, this body of water receives inflow from the Ural and Volga (-5[1])Rivers. For 10 points, name this Central Asian lake, the largest in the world. ■END■ (10[2])

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