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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 [1]
43.3Gaet'ale Pondsalt lakeEthiopia[2][3]
40.0Don Juan Pondsalt lakeAntarctica[4]
40.0Lake Retbasalt lakeSenegal[citation needed]
35.0GarabogazköllagoonTurkmenistan[5]
34.8Lake Assalsalt lakeDjibouti[6]
33.7Dead Seasalt lakeIsrael, Jordan, Palestine[7]
32.4Lake Tuz (Tuz Gölü)salt lakeTurkey[8]
31.7Great Salt Lake, North Armsalt lakeGreat Basin, Utah, United States[9]
30.0Lake Baskunchaksalt lakeAstrakhan Oblast, Russia[10]
30.0Lake Săratsalt lakeBrăila, Romania[11][12]
8.50–28.0Lake Urmiasalt lakeIran[13]
27.0Deep Lakesalt lakeAntarctica[14]
18.0Little Manitou Lakesalt lakeCanada[15]
15.3Lake Pikrolimnisalt lakeGreece[16]
0.00–14.6Lake Vandameromictic lakeAntarctica[17]
14.2Great Salt Lake, South Armsalt lakeGreat Basin, Utah, United States[9]
12.0Lake Abertsalt lakeGreat Basin, Oregon, United States[18]
9.50Lake Techirghiolsalt lakeRomania[19]
8.80Mono Lakesalt lakeGreat Basin, California, United States[20] (as of 2015)
3.8-7.1Lake BardawillagoonNorth Sinai Governorate, Egypt[21]
6.60Hamelin PoollagoonAustralia[22]
4.40Salton Seasalt lakeGreat Basin, California, United States[23]
4.10–4.50Great Bitter Lakesalt lakeEgypt[24]
3.80Mediterranean Seamediterranean seaSouthern Europe, Levant, North Africa [25]
3.60–4.10Red Seamediterranean seaEgypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa[26]
3.00–4.00Lake Natronsalt lakeTanzania[27]
3.40–3.60World OceanoceanWorldwide[28]
3.50+Lake Eyreendorheic lakeAustralia[29][n 1]
3.40Lough Hynemarine lakeRepublic of Ireland[30]
2.80–3.20Beaufort Seamarginal seaNorth of Alaska and Canada [31]
2.20Sea of Marmaramediterranean seaBetween the Balkan Peninsula and the Anatolian peninsula [32]
3.17Chilika LakelagoonIndia[33]
1.30–2.30Black Seamediterranean sea
1.40 Qinghai Lake salt lake China [36]
1.25Caspian Seasalt lakeEastern Europe/ Western Asia[37]
1.14Sarygamysh Lakesalt lakeTurkmenistan, Uzbekistan[38]
1.00–1.20Sea of Azovmediterranean seaUkraine, Russia[39][40]
0.8–1.0Baltic Seamarginal seaNorthern Europe[41][n 2]
0.59Issyk Kulsalt lakeKyrgyzstan, Central Asia[42][n 3]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Lake Elton - Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB)". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
  2. ↑ Perez, Eduardo; Chebude, Yonas (April 2017). "Chemical Analysis of Gaet'ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth". Aquatic Geochemistry. 23 (2): 109–117. Bibcode:2017AqGeo..23..109P. doi:10.1007/s10498-017-9312-z. S2CID 132715553.
  3. ↑ "Guinness World Records".
  4. ↑
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Woodward, Susan L. "Saline Lakes". Biomes of the World. Radford, Virginia: Department of Geospatial Science, Radford University. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  7. ↑ Goetz, P.W. (ed.) The New Encyclopædia Britannica (15th ed.). Vol. 3, p. 937. Chicago, 1986
  8. ↑ "Lake Tuz Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". Unesco World Heritage Center. 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  9. 1 2 White, James S.; Null, Sarah E.; Tarboton, David (2004). "More than Meets the Eye: Managing Salinity in Great Salt Lake, Utah" (PDF). LakeLine (Fall 2004): 25–29. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Bogdinsko-Baskunchaksky - Russian Nature Reserve".
  11. ↑ "About Lacu Sărat".
  12. ↑ "Observator on Lacu Sărat".
  13. ↑ "Lake Urmia". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  14. ↑ Williams, Timothy J; Allen, Michelle A; DeMaere, Matthew Z; Kyrpides, Nikos C; Tringe, Susannah G; Woyke, Tanja; Cavicchioli, Ricardo (20 February 2014). "Microbial ecology of an Antarctic hypersaline lake: genomic assessment of ecophysiology among dominant haloarchaea". The ISME Journal. 8 (8). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1645–1658. Bibcode:2014ISMEJ...8.1645W. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.18. ISSN 1751-7362. PMC 4817606. PMID 24553470.
  15. ↑ Little Manitou Lake. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  16. ↑ Dotsika, E.; Maniatis, Y.; Tzavidopoulos, E.; Poutoukis, D.; Albanakis, K. (1 January 2004). "Hydrogeochemical Condition of the Pikrolimni Lake (Kilkis Greece)". Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece. 36 (1): 192–195. doi:10.12681/bgsg.16618.
  17. ↑
  18. ↑ Solute Balance at Abert and Summer Lakes, South-Central Oregon
  19. ↑ "Lacul Techirghiol". 22 October 2021.
  20. ↑ Willever, Katherine (1 August 2016). Biogeochemistry of a Saline, Alkaline, Terminal Lake Ecosystem in Transition; Walker Lake, Nevada. UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (Thesis). doi:10.34917/9302977.
  21. ↑ Abd Ellah, Radwan G., and Maged M. Hussein. "Physical limnology of Bardawil lagoon Egypt." Am J Agric Environ Sci 5 (2009): 331-336.
  22. ↑ Suosaari, Erica; Reid, Pamela; Playford, Phillip; et al. (2016). "New multi-scale perspectives on the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia". Scientific Reports. 6 20557. Bibcode:2016NatSR...620557S. doi:10.1038/srep20557. PMC 4738353. PMID 26838605.
  23. ↑ "The Salton Sea". The Salton Sea Authority. October 1997.
  24. ↑
  25. ↑ "Ocean salinity". Science Learning Hub. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  26. ↑ A. Anati, David (March 1999). "The salinity of hypersaline brines: Concepts and misconceptions". International Journal of Salt Lake Research. 8: 55–70. doi:10.1023/A:1009059827435.
  27. ↑ The Biology and Culture of Tilapias: Proceedings of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, p.38
  28. ↑ "Ocean salinity".
  29. ↑ "Floods of Lake Eyre". k26press. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  30. ↑ "Nutrient and Ecosystem Dynamics in Ireland's Only Marine Nature Reserve (NEIDIN)" (PDF).
  31. ↑ "Beaufort Sea". Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian).
  32. ↑ "Sea of Marmara". 25 March 2021.
  33. ↑ Indian Journal of Marine Sciences - Variation of Water Quality of Chilika Lake, Orissa
  34. ↑ Black Sea - Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  35. ↑ Yama, Tomonaga (22 March 2017). "Porewater salinity reveals past lake-level changes in Lake Van, the Earth's largest soda lake". Scientific Reports. 7 (7) 313. Bibcode:2017NatSR...7..313T. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00371-w. PMC 5428207. PMID 28331216.
  36. ↑ Zhang, Renyi; Ludwig, Arne; Zhang, Cunfang; Tong, Chao; Li, Guogang; Tang, Yongtao; Peng, Zuogang; Zhao, Kai (6 May 2015). "Local adaptation of Gymnocypris przewalskii (Cyprinidae) on the Tibetan Plateau". Scientific Reports. 5 (1): 9780. Bibcode:2015NatSR...5.9780Z. doi:10.1038/srep09780. PMC 4421831. PMID 25944748.
  37. ↑ Lake Basin Management Initiative - The Caspian Sea (2004)
  38. ↑ Orlovsky, Leah; Matsrafi, Offir; Orlovsky, Nikolai; Kouznetsov, Michael (2014). "Sarykamysh Lake: Collector of Drainage Water – the Past, the Present, and the Future". The Turkmen Lake Altyn Asyr and Water Resources in Turkmenistan. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Vol. 28. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. pp. 107–140. doi:10.1007/698_2012_191. ISBN 978-3-642-38606-0.
  39. ↑ "Climatological Atlas of the Sea of Azov". National Oceanographic Data Centre. Retrieved 6 January 2008.
  40. ↑ Kosarev, Andrey G.; Kostianoy, Aleksey N. (2007). The Black Sea Environment. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-74291-3.
  41. ↑ "Long Term Temperature & Salinity Records from the Baltic Sea Transition Zone" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  42. ↑ Facts about Kyrgyzstan (in Russian)

Notes

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  1. ↑ When full, Lake Eyre salinity is the same as oceans; due to a 45cm thick salt layer when dry, it rises as water evaporates.
  2. ↑ Some bays have considerably lower salinity.
  3. ↑ Deeper water areas of lake Issyk Kul have higher salinity

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