Where is the saltiest body of water on Earth?

The saltiest natural body of water on Earth is Don Juan Pond, a small, shallow pond in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Its salinity is over 40 percent, so extreme that it remains liquid even at temperatures far below the normal freezing point of water. Among larger and better-known bodies, the Dead Sea, bordering Jordan and Israel, has a salinity of around 34 percent, nearly ten times that of the ocean, which makes swimmers float effortlessly on its surface. Lake Assal in Djibouti is another of the saltiest lakes. These waters become so salty because they sit in hot, enclosed basins with no outlet, so water evaporates and leaves dissolved salts behind, concentrating them over time. Their extreme conditions support only specialised microbes rather than fish.