Dead Sea

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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake with no outflow (sea) in Western Asia
  • Also known as: “A‘ Mhuir Shaillte”, “Al Baḩr al Mayyit”, “Al-Baḥr l-Mayyit”, “Alat na Dagat”, “An Fhairge Shalainn”, “Asfaltide”, “Asphaltic Lake”, “Asphaltic Pool”, “Bahari ya Kifo”, “Bahr Lut”, “Biển Zoar”, “Buḩayrat Lūţ”, “Dagat na Alat”, “Dagat-Patay”, “Dauðahafið”, “De dode zee”, “Dead sea”, “Death sea”, “Deyðahavið”, “Døde hav”, “East Sea”, “HaMelaẖ Yam”, “Itsaso Hil”, “La mar morta”, “Lac Asphaltite”, “Lacus Asphaltites”, “Lago de asfaltites”, “Lake Asphaltites”, “Lake Asphaltitis”, “Lût Gölü”, “Maalat na Dagat”, “Mar Mort”, “Mar Mortu”, “Mar Salgado”, “Mare Morto”, “Marea Moarta”, “Mari Muortu”, “Mirties jūra”, “Mortuum Marei”, “Muir Mharbh”, “Okwaan̄ Okwûkwu”, “Ölü Deniz”, “Palus Asphaltites”, “Patay na Dagat”, “Patay nga Dagat”, “Sāls jūra”, “Salt Sea”, “Saltisjór”, “Sea of Arava”, “Sea of Lot”, “Sea of the Arabah”, “Sea of the Dead”, “Sea of the Plain”, “Sea of the Plains”, “Sea of Zoar”, “Sijhaij”, “The Dead Sea”, “The Salt Sea”, “Y Môr Marw”, “Yām Ha-Melaḥ”, “Yam Ham Melah”, “Yam HaMelaẖ”, “Αλμυρά θάλασσα”, “Αραβά”, “Μπαχρ-Λουτ”, “Νεκρή θάλασσα”, “Асфальтове озеро”, “Асфальтовое море”, “Асфальтовое озеро”, “Мертвое море”, “Море Зоар”, “Море Лота”, “Содомское море”, “Содомське море”, “Соленое море”, “Солоне море”, “Үхлийн тэнгис”, “טויטע ים”, “ים המוות”, “יָם הַמֶּלַח”, “البحر الميت‎”, “البَحْر المَيّت”, “بحر لوط”, “بحر ميت”, “بحرالمیت”, “بحیرۂ مردار”, “خلیج عقبه”, “دریاچه مرده”, “دریاچهٔ مرده”, “زەریای خوێ”, “ܝܡܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ”, “ⵉⵍⵍ ⴰⵎⵜⵜⴰⵏ”, “சாக் கடல்”, “మృతసముద్రం”, “ಮೃತ ಸಮುದ್ರ”, “ചാവ് കടൽ”, “เดดซี”, “ทะเลตาย”, “ทะเลมรณะ”, and “ဒက်ဆီးပင်လယ်”
  • Historically known as: “Lake Amora”
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Dead Sea

Latitude of center
31.548° or 31° 32′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
35.488° or 35° 29′ 17″ east
Elevation
-415 metres (-1,362 feet)
Geo­Names ID
295347
Wiki­data ID
Q23883
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Dead Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dooie See”
  • Albanian: “Deti i Vdekur”
  • Amharic: “ጨው ባሕር”
  • Arabic: “البحر الميت”
  • Aragonese: “Mar Muerta”
  • Armenian: “Մեռյալ ծով”
  • Assamese: “ডে‘ড ছী”
  • Assamese: “ডেড ছী”
  • Assamese: “মৃত সাগৰ”
  • Asturian: “Mar Muerta”
  • Asturian: “Mar Muertu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ölü dəniz”
  • Balinese: “Segara Mati”
  • Bashkir: “Үле диңгеҙ”
  • Basque: “Itsaso Hila”
  • Belarusian: “Мёртвае мора”
  • Bengali: “মৃত সাগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “मुर्दा सागर”
  • Bosnian: “Mrtvo more”
  • Breton: “Mor Marv”
  • Bulgarian: “Мъртво море”
  • Burmese: “ပင်လယ်သေ”
  • Catalan: “mar Morta”
  • Catalan: “Mar Morta”
  • Cebuano: “Dead Sea (lanaw sa Hordanya)”
  • Cebuano: “Dead Sea”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Gadan”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای مردوو”
  • Chinese: “死海”
  • Chuvash: “Вилĕ тинĕс”
  • Chuvash: “Вилнӗ тинĕс”
  • Cornish: “Mor Marow”
  • Corsican: “Mari Mortu”
  • Croatian: “Mrtvo more”
  • Czech: “Mrtvé moře”
  • Danish: “Det Døde Hav”
  • Dhivehi: “ޑެޑްސީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deryao Merde”
  • Dutch: “Dode Zee”
  • Eastern Mari: “Колышо теҥыз”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحر الميت”
  • Esperanto: “Morta maro”
  • Esperanto: “Morta Maro”
  • Estonian: “Surnumeri”
  • Faroese: “Deyðahav”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Murdaa Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Kuollutmeri”
  • French: “mer Morte”
  • French: “Mer Morte”
  • Galician: “Mar Morto”
  • Georgian: “მკვდარი ზღვა”
  • German: “Totes Meer”
  • Gorontalo: “Laut Mati”
  • Greek: “Νεκρά θάλασσα”
  • Hebrew: “ים המלח”
  • Hindi: “मृत सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Holt-tenger”
  • Iban: “Tasik Mati”
  • Icelandic: “Dauðahaf”
  • Ido: “Mortinta Maro”
  • Inari Sami: “Jáámmâm meerâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Jamâmeerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Mati”
  • Interlingua: “Mar Morte”
  • Irish: “an Mhuir Mharbh”
  • Irish: “An Mhuir Mharbh”
  • Italian: “Mar Morto”
  • Japanese: “死海”
  • Javanese: “Laut Mati”
  • Kabiyè: “Teŋgu Kɩsɩbʋʋ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Rahat Napatai”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆಡ್ ಸೀ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Óli teńiz”
  • Kashmiri: “مۄردٕ سَمَندَر”
  • Kashubian: “Martwé Mòrze”
  • Kazakh: “Өлі теңіз”
  • Kazakh: “Өлі теңізі”
  • Khmer: “Dead Sea”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្រដេដស៊ី”
  • Kirghiz: “Жансыз деңиз”
  • Kölsch: “Duud Meer”
  • Korean: “사해”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Mirî”
  • Kurdish: “Gola Mirî”
  • Lao: “ທະເລຕາຍ”
  • Latin: “mare Asphalticum” (historical)
  • Latin: “Mare Mortuum”
  • Latin: “Mortuum mare”
  • Latvian: “Nāves jūra”
  • Limburgan: “Doeaj Zieë”
  • Literary Chinese: “死海”
  • Lithuanian: “Negyvoji jūra”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wumarłe mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Doudegt Mier”
  • Macedonian: “Мртво Море”
  • Maithili: “मृत सागर”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasina Maty”
  • Malay: “Laut Mati”
  • Malayalam: “ചാവുകടൽ”
  • Maori: “Te Moana Mate”
  • Marathi: “मृत समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “بحر المیت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sī-hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sí-hái”
  • Minangkabau: “Lauik Mati”
  • Mingrelian: “ღურელი ზუღა”
  • Mongolian: “Сөнөсөн тэнгис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبحر لميت”
  • Nepali: “मृत सागर”
  • Newari: “मृत सागर”
  • Northern Sami: “Jápmamearra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dødehavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daudehavet”
  • Norwegian: “Dødehavet”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Uchi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar Mòrta”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܐ ܕܡܠܚܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dēad Sǣ”
  • Ossetian: “Мард денджыз”
  • Paiwan: “namacai a ljavek”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੁਰਦਾ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੁਰਦਾ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Papiamento: “lama Morto”
  • Papiamento: “laman Morto”
  • Papiamento: “Laman Morto”
  • Persian: “دریای مرده”
  • Piemontese: “Mar Mòrt”
  • Polish: “Morze Martwe”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Morto”
  • Pushto: “مړ سمندر”
  • Quechua: “Wañusqa Qucha”
  • Romanian: “Marea Moartă”
  • Russian: “Мёртвое море”
  • Rusyn: “Мертве море”
  • Samogitian: “Smertėis jūra”
  • Sanskrit: “मृतसागरः”
  • Sardinian: “Mare Mortu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mhuir Shalainn”
  • Serbian: “Мртво море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mrtvo more”
  • Sicilian: “Mari Mortu”
  • Slovak: “Mŕtve more”
  • Slovenian: “Mrtvo morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اؤلو دنیز”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اولو دنیز”
  • Spanish: “mar Muerto”
  • Spanish: “Mar Muerto”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵍⵍ ⵉⵎⵎⵓⵜⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Laut Mati”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Chumvi”
  • Swedish: “Döda havet”
  • Tachelhit: “Ill immutn”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat na Patay”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Patay”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри мурда”
  • Tamil: “சாக்கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Үле диңгез”
  • Telugu: “మృత సముద్రం”
  • Telugu: “మృత సముద్రము”
  • Thai: “ทะเลเดดซี”
  • Turkish: “Lut Gölü”
  • Turkmen: “Öli deňiz”
  • Ukrainian: “Мертве море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mortwe morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ مردار”
  • Uzbek: “Oʻlik dengiz”
  • Venetian: “Mar Morto”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Chết”
  • Vlaams: “Dôo Zêe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat nga patay”
  • Welsh: “Môr Marw”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեռեալ Ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Deade See”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحرہ مردار”
  • Western Panjabi: “مریا سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “死海”
  • Yiddish: “ים המלח”
  • Yue Chinese: “死海”
  • Zhuang: “Haijdai”
  • “telo suli moli”
  • “मुर्दा सागर”

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