Lake
Dead Sea
- Surface area
- ≈ 850 km²
- Computed from the Natural Earth 1:10m lake outline. The outline is generalized, so the value can differ from official surveys by a few per cent.
- Maximum depth
- 360 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Elevation
- -441 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Length
- 67 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Width
- 18 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Drainage basin
- 41,650 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Wikidata
- Q23883
Among the world's lakes
Each line is every one of the lakes in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.
- Maximum depth360 m16th of 204 · median 42 m
- Elevation-441 m333rd of 333 · median 278 m
- Length67 km127th of 255 · median 66 km
- Width18 km126th of 221 · median 20 km
- Drainage basin41,650 km²41st of 162 · median 12,298 km²
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