Jordan, Palestine (Israeli-occupied West Bank), Israel
Max. length
50 km (31 mi)[1] (northern basin only)
Max. width
15 km (9.3 mi)
Surface area
605 km2 (234 sq mi) (2016)[2]
Average depth
188.4 m (618 ft)[3]
Max. depth
298 m (978 ft) (elevation of deepest point, 728 m (2,388 ft) BSL [below sea level], minus current surface elevation)
Water volume
114 km3 (27 cu mi)[3]
Shore length1
135 km (84 mi)
Surface elevation
−430.5 m (−1,412 ft) (2016)[4]
References
[3][4]
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.
Short video about the Dead Sea from the Israeli News Company
The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.[5][6] It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
As of 2019, the lake's surface is 430.5 metres (1,412 ft) below sea level,[4][7] making its shores the lowest land-based elevation on Earth. It is 304 m (997 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2% (in 2011), it is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water[8] – 9.6 times as salty as the ocean – and has a density of 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating.[9][10] This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea's main, northern basin is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 15 kilometres (9 mi) wide at its widest point.[1]
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean Basin for thousands of years. It was one of the world's first health resorts, and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from asphalt for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilisers. Today, tourists visit the sea on its Israeli, Jordanian and West Bank coastlines.
The Dead Sea is receding at a swift rate; its surface area today is 605 km2 (234 sq mi), having been 1,050 km2 (410 sq mi) in 1930. Multiple canal and pipeline proposals, such as the scrapped Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance project,[11] have been made to reduce its recession.
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^ abcDead Sea Data Summary 2015 Archived 2015-02-21 at archive.today.Water Authority of Israel. "Red Sea - Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Program". The World Bank Group. 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-09-15.
^ abc"Long-Term changes in the Dead Sea". Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research - Israel Marine Data Center (ISRAMAR). Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
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