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/kg NameTypeRegion or countriesRefs
433Gaet'ale Pondsalt lakeEthiopia
400Lake Retbasalt lakeSenegal
350Lake Vandasalt lakeAntarctica
350GarabogazköllagoonTurkmenistan
348Lake Assalsalt lakeDjibouti
338Don Juan Pondsalt lakeAntarctica
337Dead Seasalt lakeIsrael, Jordan, West Bank
324Lake Tuz salt lakeTurkey
317Great Salt Lake, North Armsalt lakeGreat Basin, Utah, United States
300Lake Baskunchaksalt lakeAstrakhan Oblast, Russia
85–280Lake Urmiasalt lakeIran
180Little Manitou Lakesalt lakeCanada
142Great Salt Lake, South Armsalt lakeGreat Basin, Utah, United States
120Lake Abertsalt lakeGreat Basin, Oregon, United States
88Mono Lakesalt lakeUnited States
66Hamelin PoollagoonAustralia
44Salton Seasalt lakeUnited States
38Mediterranean Seamediterranean seaSouthern Europe, Levant, North Africa
36–41Red Seamediterranean seaEgypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa
30–40Lake Natronsalt lakeTanzania
34–36World OceanoceanWorldwide
34.06 ± 0.543Lough Hynemarine lakeRepublic of Ireland
28–32Beaufort Seamarginal seaNorth of Alaska and Canada
0.13–31.73Chilika LakelagoonIndia
13–23Black Seamediterranean seaEastern Europe, Turkey
23Lake Vansalt lakeTurkey
12.5Caspian Seainland seaCentral Asia
11.4Sarygamysh Lakesalt lakeTurkmenistan, Uzbekistan
10Baltic Seamarginal seaNorthern Europe