![]() ![]() Multiple canal and pipeline proposals, such as the scrapped Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance project, have been made to reduce its recession. The Dead Sea is receding at a swift rate its surface area today is 605 km 2 (234 sq mi), having been 1,050 km 2 (410 sq mi) in 1930. The Palestinian tourism industry has been met with setbacks in developing along the West Bank coast. Today, tourists visit the sea on its Israeli, Jordanian and West Bank coastlines. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from asphalt for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilisers. ![]() The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean Basin for thousands of years. The Dead Sea's main, northern basin is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 15 kilometres (9 mi) wide at its widest point. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish, hence its name. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2% (in 2011), it is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water – 9.6 times as salty as the ocean – and has a density of 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating. It is 304 m (997 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.Īs of 2019, the lake's surface is 430.5 metres (1,412 ft) below sea level, making its shores the lowest land-based elevation on Earth. The Dead Sea ( Arabic: اَلْبَحْرُ الْمَيْتُ, Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, Yam hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the West Bank and Israel to the west. Short video about the Dead Sea from the Israeli News Company ![]()
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