GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Dead Sea, also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east, and Israel to the west. Its surface and shores are 427 metres below sea level, Earth’s lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea is 306 m deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Dead Sea has the lowest elevation and is the lowest body of water on the surface of Earth. For several decades in the mid-20th century, the standard value given for the surface level of the lake was some 1, 300 feet (400 metres) below sea level.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dead Sea, Jordan/Israel, 1, 414 feet (431 meters) below sea level. The Earth’s lowest point, one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water, is colorful and surreal.

Detailed explanation-4: -Over the years the water level of the sea has dropped dramatically due to harvesting of the salt, human diversion of the Jordan River so that less water reaches the Salt Sea and natural evaporation. The sea is divided into an upper and lower basin by a thin strip of land.