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What it’s like to travel in a country that doesn’t exist

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Karakalpakstan is an invisible, autonomous state that takes up over one-third of Uzbekistan ’s territory, though accounts for just 2 per cent of its population.

It was incorporated into the Uzbek SSR in 1936 , but the seeds of sovereignty had already been sewn.

Their language is different, coming from a separate branch of the Turkic language family.

Tens of thousands of people lived there in the mid-20th century , making a living from the bountiful waters of the Aral Sea .

But in the 1920s the Soviets began developing cotton farms across the Central Asian steppes.

In the late 1950s , they diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya to bolster the industry.

Within a decade , as much as 25 per cent of it had dried up.

Today , just 13,500 people are left.

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