WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Question
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Dead Sea and Mediterranean Sea
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Dead Sea and Red Sea
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Dead Sea and Jordan River
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Dead Sea and Tigris River
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Dead Sea Hebrew: , Yam hamMelaḥ); (Arabic: , Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū, also known by other names, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the West Bank and Israel to the west. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Jordan River runs along the border between Jordan, the Palestinian West Bank, Israel and southwestern Syria. The river holds major significance in Judaism and Christianity. According to the Bible, the Israelites crossed it into the Promised Land and Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist in it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Finally, the Jordan drains into the Dead Sea through a gently sloping broad delta.
Detailed explanation-5: -Originating from the Anti-Lebanon and Mount Hermon mountain ranges, the Jordan River covers a distance of 223 km from north to south and discharges into the Dead Sea.