List of bodies of water by salinity

This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered fresh.

Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as an approximate indicator.

Salinity, g/100 g (%)	Name	Type	Region or countries	Refs
20.0–50.0	Lake Elton	salt lake	Volgograd Oblast, Russia
43.3	Gaet'ale Pond	salt lake	Ethiopia
40.0	Don Juan Pond	salt lake	Antarctica
40.0	Lake Retba	salt lake	Senegal	^{[citation needed]}
35.0	Garabogazköl	lagoon	Turkmenistan
34.8	Lake Assal	salt lake	Djibouti
33.7	Dead Sea	salt lake	Israel, Jordan, Palestine
32.4	Lake Tuz (Tuz Gölü)	salt lake	Turkey
31.7	Great Salt Lake, North Arm	salt lake	Great Basin, Utah, United States
30.0	Lake Baskunchak	salt lake	Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
30.0	Lake Sărat	salt lake	Brăila, Romania
8.50–28.0	Lake Urmia	salt lake	Iran
27.0	Deep Lake	salt lake	Antarctica
18.0	Little Manitou Lake	salt lake	Canada
15.3	Lake Pikrolimni	salt lake	Greece
0.00–14.6	Lake Vanda	meromictic lake	Antarctica
14.2	Great Salt Lake, South Arm	salt lake	Great Basin, Utah, United States
12.0	Lake Abert	salt lake	Great Basin, Oregon, United States
9.50	Lake Techirghiol	salt lake	Romania
8.80	Mono Lake	salt lake	Great Basin, California, United States	(as of 2015)
3.8-7.1	Lake Bardawil	lagoon	North Sinai Governorate, Egypt
6.60	Hamelin Pool	lagoon	Australia
4.40	Salton Sea	salt lake	Great Basin, California, United States
4.10–4.50	Great Bitter Lake	salt lake	Egypt
3.80	Mediterranean Sea	mediterranean sea	Southern Europe, Levant, North Africa
3.60–4.10	Red Sea	mediterranean sea	Egypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa
3.00–4.00	Lake Natron	salt lake	Tanzania
3.40–3.60	World Ocean	ocean	Worldwide
3.50+	Lake Eyre	endorheic lake	Australia
3.40	Lough Hyne	marine lake	Republic of Ireland
2.80–3.20	Beaufort Sea	marginal sea	North of Alaska and Canada
2.20	Sea of Marmara	mediterranean sea	Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Anatolian peninsula
3.17	Chilika Lake	lagoon	India
1.30–2.30	Black Sea	mediterranean sea	Between Europe and Asia - Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, Caucasus
2.30	Lake Van	salt lake	Turkey
1.40	Qinghai Lake	salt lake	China
1.25	Caspian Sea	salt lake	Eastern Europe/ Western Asia
1.14	Sarygamysh Lake	salt lake	Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
1.00–1.20	Sea of Azov	mediterranean sea	Ukraine, Russia
0.8–1.0	Baltic Sea	marginal sea	Northern Europe
0.59	Issyk Kul	salt lake	Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

Bibliography

Johanna Laybourn-Parry; Jemma L. Wadham (2014). Antarctic Lakes. Oxford University Press. pp. 92–94. ISBN 978-0-19-967049-9.

See also

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