page_title: Salt lake
section_title: List
hierarchical_section_title: Salt lake / List
caption_attribution_description: English: Mono Lake, California, USA
context_page_description: A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes. In some cases, salt lakes have a higher concentration of salt than sea water; such lakes can also be termed hypersaline lakes. An alkalic salt lake that has a high content of carbonate is sometimes termed a soda lake.
  One saline lake classification differentiates between:
  subsaline: 0.5–3‰
  hyposaline: 3–20‰
  mesosaline: 20–50‰
  hypersaline: greater than 50‰
context_section_description: Aral Sea
  Aydar Lake
  Bakhtegan Lake
  Caspian Sea
  Chott el Djerid
  Dead Sea
  Devil's Lake
  Don Juan Pond
  Great Salt Lake
  Laguna Colorada
  Laguna Verde
  Lake Assal
  Lake Bumbunga
  Lake Elton
  Lake Eyre
  Lake Gairdner
  Lake Hillier
  Lake Karum
  Lake Mackay
  Lake Natron
  Lake Paliastomi
  Lake Texoma
  Lake Torrens
  Lake Tuz
  Lake Tyrrell
  Lake Urmia
  Lake Van
  Lake Vanda
  Little Manitou Lake
  Loch Hyne
  Maharloo Lake
  Mar Chiquita Lake
  Mono Lake
  Nam Lake
  Redberry Lake
  Salton Sea
  Sambhar Salt Lake
  Sarygamysh Lake
  Sawa Lake
  Sutton Salt Lake
  Lonar Lake
  Lake Abert
  Lake Balkhash
  Dabusun Lake
  Siling Lake
  Pulicat Lake
  Lake Pontchartrain
  Uvs Lake
  Lake Barlee
  Chilika Lake
  South Hulsan Lake
  Lake Alakol
  Pangong Lake
  Lake Baskunchak
  Qarhan Playa
  Palm Tree Lagoon
  Black Throat Lake
  Lake Crosbie
  Larnaca Salt Lake
  Some of the last 18 salt lakes in this list are also partly fresh and/or brackish water. Like a body of water can have "sea" in its name and technically be a salt lake (for instance, the Salton Sea really being a salt lake), some of the last 18 listed salt lakes are playas, basins or ponds. This might even be the same way for the original 32 salt lakes that were listed here until April 6, 2020. Civilization tends to loosely categorize many of earth's bodies of water.
  117,000,000 lakes scatter the earth, and together they only hold about seventeen thousandths or less of all water on earth, making salt lakes more interesting and special.
caption: Mono Lake, United States
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