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Dasht-e Nawar
Dasht-e Nawar (Dašt-e Nāwor, "plain of the lake") is a 3,100 m high basin with a brackish lake about 60 km west of Ghazni, Afghanistan, known for Paleolithic sites, Afghanistan's only obsidian source, destroyed Kushan trilingual inscriptions, and a lithium-bearing playa.
Hammar Marsh
Hammar Marsh (Hawr al-Hammar), one of the three Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq south of the Euphrates; drained in the 1990s, reflooded after 2003, Ramsar site since 2014.
Hawizeh Marsh
Hawizeh Marsh (Haur Al-Hawizeh), a transboundary Mesopotamian wetland on the Iraq–Iran border (Iranian part Haur Al-Azim), Iraq's first Ramsar site (2007, 137,700 ha), Montreux Record 2010, degraded by dams and drought.
Mesopotamian Marshes (أهوار العراق)
The Mesopotamian Marshes (أهوار العراق), also called the Iraqi Marshlands or Ahwar, are a large wetland system in southern Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, the largest freshwater wetland in the Middle East.
North Caspian swamp
North Caspian swamp: shallow-water wetlands, reed beds and deltas of the Caspian Sea's northern basin in Kazakhstan and Russia; under 5 m deep over two-thirds of its area, Volga-fed, Ramsar-protected, and retreating as sea level falls.