List of bodies of water by salinity - wikipedia List of bodies of water by salinity This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. Part of a series on Water salinity Salinity levels Fresh water ( < 0.05 % ) Brackish water ( 0.05 -- 3 % ) Saline water ( 3 -- 5 % ) Brine ( > 5 % ) Bodies of water Seawater Salt lake Hypersaline lake Salt pan Brine pool Bodies 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 0.5 %, at or below which water is considered fresh. On average, seawater has a salinity of 3.5 % ( or 35 parts per thousand ). 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 ( ‰ ) Name Type Region or countries Refs 433 Gaet'ale Pond Salt lake Ethiopia 403 Don Juan Pond Salt lake Antarctica 400 Lake Retba Salt lake Senegal 350 Lake Vanda Salt lake Antarctica 350 Garabogazköl Lagoon Turkmenistan 348 Lake Assal Salt lake Djibouti 337 Dead Sea Salt lake Israel, Jordan, Palestine 85 -- 280 Lake Urmia Salt lake Iran 50 -- 270 Great Salt Lake Salt lake United States 180 Little Manitou Lake Salt lake Canada 50 -- 99 Mono Lake Salt lake United States 44 Salton Sea Salt lake United States 38 Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean sea Southern Europe, Levant, North Africa 36 -- 41 Red Sea Mediterranean sea Middle East 30 -- 40 Lake Natron Salt lake Tanzania 35 Pacific Ocean Ocean 35 Atlantic Ocean Ocean 28 -- 32 Beaufort Sea Marginal Sea North of Alaska and northern Canada 0.13 -- 31.73 Chilika Lake Lagoon India 13 -- 23 Black Sea Mediterranean sea Eastern Europe, Turkey 23 Lake Van Salt lake Turkey 12.5 Caspian Sea Inland sea Central Asia 11.4 Sarygamysh Lake Salt lake Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan 10 Baltic Sea Mediterranean sea Northern Europe References Jump up ^ 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. doi : 10.1007 / s10498 - 017 - 9312 - z. Jump up ^ G.M. Marion ( 1997 ). `` A theoretical evaluation of mineral stability in Lolu Lake Pond, Nigeria, Victoria Land ''. Antarctic Science. 9 ( 1 ) : 92 -- 99. doi : 10.1017 / S0954102097000114. Jump up ^ Goetz, P.W. ( ed. ) The New Encyclopædia Britannica ( 15th ed. ). Vol. 3, p. 937. Chicago, 1986 Jump up ^ `` Lake Urmia ''. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012. Jump up ^ Can I float in Great Salt lake ?. Utah Geological Survey. Jump up ^ Little Manitou Lake. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Jump up ^ `` Frequently Asked Questions About Mono Lake ''. monolake.org. Retrieved 31 January 2015. Jump up ^ `` Ocean salinity ''. Science Learning Hub. Retrieved 2017 - 07 - 02. Jump up ^ A. Anati, David ( March 1999 ). `` The salinity of hypersaline brines : Concepts and misconceptions ''. International Journal of Salt Lake Research. doi : 10.1023 / A : 1009059827435. Retrieved 3 February 2016. Jump up ^ The Biology and Culture of Tilapias : Proceedings of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, p. 38 Jump up ^ `` Atlantic Ocean ''. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 31 January 2015. Jump up ^ `` Beaufort Sea ''. Great Soviet Encyclopedia ( in Russian ). Jump up ^ Indian Journal of Marine Sciences - Variation of Water Quality of Chilika Lake, Orissa Jump up ^ Black Sea - Encyclopedia of Ukraine Jump up ^ Yama, Tomonaga ( 22 March 2017 ). `` Porewater salinity reveals past lake - level changes in Lake Van, the Earth 's largest soda lake ''. Scientific Reports. Nature ( 7 ). doi : 10.1038 / s41598 - 017 - 00371 - w. Jump up ^ Lake Basin Management Initiative - The Caspian Sea ( 2004 ) Jump up ^ 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. Berlin / Heidelberg : Springer - Verlag. doi : 10.1007 / 698_2012_191. Jump up ^ Long Term Temperature & Salinity Records from the Baltic Sea Transition Zone Notes Jump up ^ Some bays have considerably lower salinity. Bibliography Johanna Laybourn - Parry ; Jemma L. Wadham ( 2014 ). Antarctic Lakes. Oxford University Press. pp. 92 -- 94. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 967049 - 9. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_bodies_of_water_by_salinity&oldid=807980893 '' Categories : Lists of bodies of water Oceans Hidden categories : Incomplete lists from November 2011 Use dmy dates from March 2017 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017 Talk About Wikipedia 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 31 October 2017, at 04 : 38. About Wikipedia

Question: what is the saltiest body of water on earth
Answer: Gaet'ale Pond