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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit; or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yam hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest. It lies in the endorheic basin of the Jordan Rift…

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Location
West Asia
Average depth
188.4 m (618 ft)
Basin countries
Jordan, Palestine (Israeli-occupied West Bank), Israel
Catchment area
41,650 km2 (16,080 sq mi)
Lake type
Endorheic · Hypersaline
Max. depth
298 m (978 ft) (elevation of deepest point, 728 m (2,388 ft) BSL [below sea level], minus current surface elevation)

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British Mandate period

Israel

Jordan

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Dead Sea

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Edges307
Triples393
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006494
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Dead Sea

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related to Biblical period · 25
Dead Sea → Abraham, Abraham's, Admah, Before, Book, Canaan, Cities, Deuteronomy, Dwelling, Ein Gedi, Genesis, Gomorrah, Hebrew Bible, Israelites, Jericho, Just, King David, Lot, Plain, Saul
related to Names · 25
Dead Sea → Arabah, Arabic, Bible, Death, Eastern Sea, Greek, HaYām HaQadmōnî, Hebrew, Historical English, However, In, Lake, Lake Asphaltites, Latin, Other Hebrew, Salt, Salt Sea, Sea, Sodom, Talmud
related to Further reading · 24
Dead Sea → America, Area, Ben-Avraham, Dead Sea Paleoenvironmental Research, Dead Sea Water Conveyance, Economic Management Department, Future, Gat, Geological Society, ISBN, Its Setting, New Frontiers, October, Oxford University Press, Palestinian Economy, Poverty Reduction, Study Program, The Dead Sea, The Lake, The Red Sea
related to Human settlement · 21
Dead Sea → Aqaba, Avnat, Egyptian, Eilat, Ein Bokek, Ein Gedi, Highway, Israeli, Jordan's, Jordanian, Kalya, Lebanese, Megilot Regional Council, Metula, Mitzpe Shalem, Neve Zohar, Potash City, Red Sea, Suweima, There
related to Lake formation · 21
Dead Sea → According, Amora, BP, Formation, However, Jordan Rift Valley, Kafri, Lake Amora, Lake Lisan, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea, Mordechai Stein, Neogene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Pliocene-early Pleistocene, Samra, Sedom Lagoon, The, This
related to Link to the Red Sea · 20
Dead Sea → Aqaba, At, Currently, Development Project, Experts, In May, Israel, Jordan, Jordan National Red Sea, Jordan River, JRSP, July, Negev, Others, Red Sea, Some, They, This, Water, World Economic Forum
related to British Mandate period · 19
Dead Sea → Arab, Both, Britain's, British Mandatory, Employing Arabs, In, Israeli War, Its, Jews, Jordanians, Kalya, Lake Baikal, Lashon, Moses Novomeysky, Mount Sodom, Palestine Potash Company, Siberian Jewish, The, World War II
related to External links · 16
Dead Sea → Encyclopædia Britannica, Israeli, Jordanian, Josias Leslie, Macalister, Media, OpenStreetMapPorter, Robert Alexander Stewart, The, VII, Vol, West Bank, Wikimedia CommonsDead Sea, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary Geographic, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Geography · 15
Dead Sea → African Plate, Arabian Plate, Dead Sea Transform, DST, East Anatolian Fault, Israel, It, Jordan, Jordan Rift Valley, Palestine's Israeli-occupied West Bank, Red Sea Rift, Sinai, The Dead Sea, This, Turkey
related to Jordan · 15
Dead Sea → APC, Arab Potash, Convention Center, Google Street View, Jordan, Jordan's GDP, Jordanian, Jordanian Dead Sea, Karak Governorate, King Hussein Bin Talal, November, On, Safi, South Aghwar Department, The

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sea dead water jordan lake level salinity salt area israel west bank along ft shore mi jordanian potash near valley

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dead SeaAverage depth188.4 m (618 ft)1.00infobox
Dead SeaBasin countriesJordan, Palestine (Israeli-occupied West Bank), Israel1.00infobox
Dead SeaCatchment area41,650 km2 (16,080 sq mi)1.00infobox
Dead SeaCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Dead SeaLake typeEndorheic1.00infobox
Dead SeaLake typeHypersaline1.00infobox
Dead SeaLocationWest Asia1.00infobox
Dead SeaMax. depth298 m (978 ft) (elevation of deepest point, 728 m (2,388 ft) BSL [below sea level], minus current surface elevation)1.00infobox
Dead SeaMax. length50 km (31 mi) (northern basin only)1.00infobox
Dead SeaMax. width15 km (9.3 mi)1.00infobox
Dead SeaPrimary inflowsJordan River1.00infobox
Dead SeaPrimary outflowsNone1.00infobox
Dead SeaShore length1135 km (84 mi)1.00infobox
Dead SeaSurface area605 km2 (234 sq mi) (2016)1.00infobox
Dead SeaSurface elevation−439.78 m (−1,443 ft) (2025)1.00infobox
Dead SeaWater volume114 km3 (27 cu mi)1.00infobox
Dead Seais asalt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Palestine's Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west0.90text

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