Lowest point on earth at the Dead Sea // Trip to Jordan
Lowest point on earth at the Dead Sea // Trip to Jordan
Dead Sea
The Dead Sea (Hebrew: [[wikt:ים המלח, Yam hamMelaḥ; Arabic: [[wikt:البحر الميت, Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū), also known by other names, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the West Bank and Israel to the west. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River. As of 2019, the lake's surface is below sea level, making its shores the lowest land-based elevation on Earth. It is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2% (…
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