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
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Gaet'ale Pond