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salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...
is a lake containing a high concentration of salt.
Salt Lake may also refer to:
Places
Lakes
* North America:
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Salt Lake (Arkansas), in
Clark County
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Salt Lake (Brown County, South Dakota)
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Salt Lake (Minnesota–South Dakota), (U.S.) bi-state lake, in counties of Lac qui Parle (MN) and Deuel (SD)
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Salt Lake (Campbell County, South Dakota)
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Salt Lake (Florida), a lake in
Pinellas County
Pinellas County (, ) is a county located on the west central coast of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 959,107. The county is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg– Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical ...
, Florida, United States
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Little Salt Lake
Little Salt Lake (also called Parowan Lake), is a dry lake in east‑central Iron County, Utah, United States.
Description
The lake has an elevation and is located on the southwestern edge of the Parowan Valley at the eastern foot of the Red ...
, small salt lake in Utah
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Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particula ...
, the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere, located in northern Utah, U.S.
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Great Salt Lake Desert
The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for w ...
, a large playa in northern Utah
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Zuñi Salt Lake
Zuñi Salt Lake, also Zuni Salt Lake is a rare high desert lake, and a classic maar, located in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, about south of the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.
Description
Zuñi Salt Lake is extremely shallow, with a d ...
, a rare, high desert lake (a classic maar) south of the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
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Salt Lake (Saskatchewan), a lake in Saskatchewan, Canada
* Oceania:
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Salt Lake (New Zealand), in the Northland Region
* Europe:
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Salt Lake (Poland), a lake in
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
The ...
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Larnaca Salt Lake
Larnaca Salt Lake ( el, Αλυκή Λάρνακας, tr, Larnaka Tuz Gölü) is a complex network of four salt lakes (3 of them interconnected) of different sizes to the west of the city of Larnaca. The largest is lake ''Aliki'', followed by lake ...
, Cyprus
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Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz ( tr, Tuz Gölü meaning 'Salt Lake'; anciently Tatta — grc, ἡ Τάττα, la, Tatta Lacus) was the second largest lake in Turkey with its
surface area and one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world. It is located in the Ce ...
, whose Turkish name 'Tuz Gölü' means 'salt lake', found in central Anatolia, Turkey
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Dead Sea
The Dead Sea ( he, יַם הַמֶּלַח, ''Yam hamMelaḥ''; ar, اَلْبَحْرُ الْمَيْتُ, ''Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū''), also known by other names, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank ...
, west of Jordan, east of Israel, east of Palestinian Authorities
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Sambhar Salt Lake, India’s largest salt lake, west of Jaipur
Landmarks
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Salt Lake City International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport is a civil-military airport located about west of Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. The airport is the closest commercial airport for more than 2.5 million people and is within a 30-minu ...
, an airport in Utah
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Salt Lake Stadium
The Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK; ), commonly known as the Salt Lake Stadium, is an all-seater multi-purpose stadium located in Bidhannagar, with current capacity of 85,000 spectators. Named after Swami Vivekananda, the stadium fo ...
, the world's second largest stadium, formally named ''Yuva Bharati Krirangan'', located in Kolkata, India
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Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. At , it is the largest Latter-day Saint temple by floor area. Dedicated in 1893, it is the sixth temple ...
, a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Municipalities
* India
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Salt Lake City, Kolkata
Bidhannagar is a planned urban agglomeration and city and a municipal corporation of the North 24 Parganas in the Indian state of West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of ...
, popular nickname for Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India
*United States
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Salt Lake, Hawaii
Salt Lake is a neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of O‘ahu. The area is also known as Āliamanu after a nearby crater, although Salt Lake itself is in a crater called ''Ālia pa‘akai'' — meaning "salt pond" in the Hawaiian l ...
, neighborhood on the island of Oahu
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Sal ...
, capital of Utah and county seat of Salt Lake County
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Salt Lake County, Utah
Salt Lake County is located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 1,185,238, making it the most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. The coun ...
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Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan, and West Valley City; its total po ...
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North Salt Lake, Utah
North Salt Lake is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden– Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 16,322 at the 2010 census, which had risen to an estimated 20,948 as of 2019.
The ...
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South Salt Lake, Utah
South Salt Lake is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States and is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 23,617 at the 2010 census.
History
Jesse Fox Jr. developed the area South Salt Lake referre ...
Salt Lake City sport teams
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Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake, often shortened to RSL, is an American professional soccer franchise based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Western Conference. RSL began play in 20 ...
, in Major League Soccer
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Salt Lake Bees
The Salt Lake Bees are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels. They are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and play their home games at Smith's Ballpark. The ballpark op ...
, in minor league baseball
Other uses
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USS ''Salt Lake City'', two United States Navy vessels
See also
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Dabasun Nor (disambiguation), Mongolian for 'Salt Lake'
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Salt River (disambiguation)
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