text: By volume it is the world 's fourth largest salt lake after the Caspian Sea , Issyk-Kul Lake and the ( shrinking ) Aral Sea , and among all lakes it ranks twenty-fourth .
simplified: By volume it is the world 's fourth largest salt lake after the Caspian Sea , Issyk-Kul Lake and the ( shrinking ) Aral Sea . Among all lakes it ranks 24th .