Lake Urmia (Turkish Language: Urmu Gölü, Urmiye Gölü,)is a salt lake in northwestern South Azerbaijan(Iranian Azerbaijan) near Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea Caspian Sea.The lake is named after the provincial capital city of Urmia, originally a sumerian name.The lake is marked by more than a hundred small rocky islands, which are stopover points in the migrations of various kinds of wild bird life (including flamingos, pelicans, spoonbills, ibises, storks, shelducks, avocets, stilts, and gulls).
Urmia lake is the second salt lake of the world.The population of Urmia is predominantly Turks Nation (over 90%), but with Kurdish,Assyrian and Armenian minorities.
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