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Amman Governorate

Dead Sea

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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake with no outflow (sea) in Western Asia
  • Also known as: “Al Baḩr al Mayyit”, “Asphaltic Lake”, “Asphaltic Pool”, “Buḩayrat Lūţ”, “Death sea”, “East Sea”, “HaMelaẖ Yam”, “Lacus Asphaltites”, “Lake Asphaltites”, “Lake Asphaltitis”, “Palus Asphaltites”, “Salt Sea”, “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”, “The Dead Sea”, “The Salt Sea”, “Yam Ham Melah”, and “Yam HaMelaẖ”
  • 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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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Arabic: “البحر الميت”
  • Arabic: “بحر لوط”
  • Arabic: “بحر ميت”
  • Aragonese: “Mar Muerta”
  • Aragonese: “Mar Muerto”
  • 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 Hil”
  • Basque: “Itsaso Hila”
  • Belarusian: “Мёртвае мора”
  • Bengali: “মৃত সাগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “मुर्दा सागर”
  • Bosnian: “Mrtvo more”
  • Breton: “Mor Marv”
  • Bulgarian: “Мъртво море”
  • Burmese: “ဒက်ဆီးပင်လယ်”
  • Burmese: “ပင်လယ်သေ”
  • Catalan: “Bahr Lut”
  • Catalan: “La mar morta”
  • Catalan: “Mar Mort”
  • Catalan: “mar Morta”
  • Catalan: “Mar Morta”
  • Cebuano: “Dead Sea (lanaw sa Hordanya)”
  • Cebuano: “Dead Sea”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Gadan”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای مردوو”
  • Central Kurdish: “زەریای خوێ”
  • Chinese: “Sí-hái”
  • 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”
  • Danish: “Døde hav”
  • Danish: “Dødehavet”
  • Dhivehi: “ޑެޑްސީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deryao Merde”
  • Dutch: “De dode zee”
  • Dutch: “Dode Zee”
  • Eastern Mari: “Колышо теҥыз”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحر الميت”
  • Esperanto: “Morta maro”
  • Esperanto: “Morta Maro”
  • Estonian: “Surnumeri”
  • Faroese: “Deyðahav”
  • Faroese: “Deyðahavið”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Murdaa Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Kuollutmeri”
  • French: “Lac Asphaltite”
  • French: “mer Morte”
  • French: “Mer Morte”
  • Galician: “Mar Morto”
  • Georgian: “მკვდარი ზღვა”
  • German: “Mortuum Marei”
  • German: “Totes Meer”
  • Greek: “Αλμυρά θάλασσα”
  • Greek: “Αραβά”
  • Greek: “Μπαχρ-Λουτ”
  • Greek: “Νεκρά θάλασσα”
  • Greek: “Νεκρή θάλασσα”
  • Hebrew: “ים המוות”
  • Hebrew: “ים המלח”
  • Hindi: “मृत सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Holt-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Dauðahaf”
  • Icelandic: “Dauðahafið”
  • Icelandic: “Saltisjór”
  • Ido: “Mortinta Maro”
  • Inari Sami: “Jáámmâm meerâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Jamâmeerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Mati”
  • Interlingua: “Mar Morte”
  • Irish: “an Mhuir Mharbh”
  • Irish: “An Mhuir Mharbh”
  • Irish: “Dead Sea”
  • Irish: “Muir Mharbh”
  • Italian: “Asfaltide”
  • Italian: “Mar Morto”
  • Italian: “Mare Morto”
  • Japanese: “死海”
  • Javanese: “Laut Mati”
  • Kabiyè: “Teŋgu Kɩsɩbʋʋ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Rahat Napatai”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆಡ್ ಸೀ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೃತ ಸಮುದ್ರ”
  • Kashmiri: “مۄردٕ سَمَندَر”
  • Kashubian: “Martwé Mòrze”
  • Kazakh: “Өлі теңіз”
  • Kazakh: “Өлі теңізі”
  • Khmer: “Dead Sea”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្រដេដស៊ី”
  • Kirghiz: “Жансыз деңиз”
  • Kölsch: “Duud Meer”
  • Kölsch: “Totes Meer”
  • Korean: “사해”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Mirî”
  • Kurdish: “Gola Mirî”
  • Lao: “ທະເລຕາຍ”
  • Latin: “mare Asphalticum” (historical)
  • Latin: “Mare Mortuum”
  • Latin: “Mortuum mare”
  • Latvian: “Nāves jūra”
  • Latvian: “Sāls jūra”
  • Limburgan: “Doeaj Zieë”
  • Literary Chinese: “死海”
  • Lithuanian: “Mirties jūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Negyvoji jūra”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wumarłe mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Doudegt Mier”
  • Macedonian: “Мртво Море”
  • Maithili: “मृत सागर”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasina Maty”
  • Malay: “Laut Mati”
  • Malayalam: “Dead sea”
  • Malayalam: “ചാവുകടൽ”
  • Malayalam: “ചാവ് കടൽ”
  • 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”
  • Mongolian: “Үхлийн тэнгис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبحر لميت”
  • Nepali: “मृत सागर”
  • Newari: “मृत सागर”
  • Northern Sami: “Jápmamearra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dødehavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daudehavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dødehavet”
  • Norwegian: “Dødehavet”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Okwûkwu”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Uchi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar Mòrta”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܐ ܕܡܠܚܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dēad Sǣ”
  • Ossetian: “Мард денджыз”
  • Paiwan: “namacai a ljavek”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੁਰਦਾ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੁਰਦਾ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Laman morto”
  • Persian: “بحر المیت”
  • Persian: “بحرالمیت”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریاچه مرده”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ مرده”
  • Persian: “دریای مرده”
  • Piemontese: “Mar Mòrt”
  • Polish: “Morze Martwe”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Morto”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Salgado”
  • Pushto: “مړ سمندر”
  • Quechua: “Wañusqa Qucha”
  • Romanian: “Marea Moarta”
  • Romanian: “Marea Moartă”
  • Russian: “Асфальтовое море”
  • Russian: “Асфальтовое озеро”
  • Russian: “Мертвое море”
  • Russian: “Мёртвое море”
  • Russian: “Содомское море”
  • Russian: “Соленое море”
  • Rusyn: “Мертве море”
  • Samogitian: “Smertėis jūra”
  • Sanskrit: “मृतसागरः”
  • Sardinian: “Mar Morto”
  • Sardinian: “Mare Mortu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mhuir Shaillte”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mhuir Shalainn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Fhairge Shalainn”
  • Serbian: “Мртво море”
  • Serbian: “ים המלח”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mrtvo more”
  • Sicilian: “Mar Mortu”
  • Sicilian: “Mari Mortu”
  • Sicilian: “Mari Muortu”
  • Slovak: “Mŕtve more”
  • Slovenian: “Mrtvo morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اؤلو دنیز”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اولو دنیز”
  • Spanish: “Lago de asfaltites”
  • Spanish: “mar Muerto”
  • Spanish: “Mar Muerto”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵍⵍ ⴰⵎⵜⵜⴰⵏ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵍⵍ ⵉⵎⵎⵓⵜⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Laut Mati”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Chumvi”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Kifo”
  • Swedish: “Döda havet”
  • Tachelhit: “Ill immutn”
  • Tagalog: “Alat na Dagat”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat na Alat”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat na Patay”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Patay”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat-Patay”
  • Tagalog: “Dead Sea”
  • Tagalog: “Maalat na Dagat”
  • Tagalog: “Patay na Dagat”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри мурда”
  • Tamil: “சாக் கடல்”
  • Tamil: “சாக்கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Үле диңгез”
  • Telugu: “మృత సముద్రం”
  • Telugu: “మృత సముద్రము”
  • Telugu: “మృతసముద్రం”
  • Thai: “เดดซี”
  • Thai: “ทะเลเดดซี”
  • Thai: “ทะเลตาย”
  • Thai: “ทะเลมรณะ”
  • Turkish: “Lut Gölü”
  • Turkish: “Lût Gölü”
  • Turkish: “Ölü Deniz”
  • Turkmen: “Öli deňiz”
  • Ukrainian: “Асфальтове озеро”
  • Ukrainian: “Мертве море”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Зоар”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Лота”
  • Ukrainian: “Содомське море”
  • Ukrainian: “Солоне море”
  • Ukrainian: “ים המלח”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mortwe morjo”
  • Urdu: “Dead Sea”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ مردار”
  • Urdu: “بحیرۂ مردار”
  • Uzbek: “Oʻlik dengiz”
  • Venetian: “Mar Morto”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Chết”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Zoar”
  • Vlaams: “Dôo Zêe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat nga patay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dead Sea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Patay nga Dagat”
  • Welsh: “Môr Marw”
  • Welsh: “Y Môr Marw”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեռեալ Ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Deade See”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحرہ مردار”
  • Western Panjabi: “مریا سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “死海”
  • Yiddish: “טויטע ים”
  • Yiddish: “ים המלח”
  • Yue Chinese: “Al-Baḥr l-Mayyit”
  • Yue Chinese: “Dead Sea”
  • Yue Chinese: “Yām Ha-Melaḥ”
  • Yue Chinese: “יָם הַמֶּלַח”
  • Yue Chinese: “البَحْر المَيّت”
  • Yue Chinese: “死海”
  • Zhuang: “Haijdai”
  • Zhuang: “Sijhaij”
  • “Smertėis jūra”
  • “telo suli moli”
  • “मुर्दा सागर”

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