Great Salt Lake
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Summary
Great Salt Lake is a hypersaline lake[1]. It draws 8,312 Wikipedia views per month (hypersaline lake category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Box Elder County[3], Tooele County[4], Weber County[5], Salt Lake County[6], Davis County[7]
- Country: United States[8]
- Instance of: salt lake[9]
- Named after: salt lake[10]
- Inflows: Jordan River[11], Bear River[12], Weber River[13], Deep Creek[14]
- Basin country: United States[15]
- Commons category: Great Salt Lake[16]
- Topic's main category: Category:Great Salt Lake[17]
- External data available at URL: https://webapps.usgs.gov/gsl/index.html[18]
- Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], The American Cyclopædia[22], New International Encyclopedia[23], The New Student's Reference Work[24], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[25]
- Native label: Ti'tsa-pa[26]
- Length: 120 km[27]
- Elevation above sea level: 1283 m[28]
- Area: 4400 km²[29]
- Width: 45 km[30]
- Watershed area: 55,685 km²[31]
- Volume as quantity: 18,920,000,000 cubic metre[32]
- Salinity: 317 per mille[33], 142 per mille[34]
- Vertical depth: 10.7 m[35]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Great Salt Lake include Salt Lake City[36], a city in the United States[37], in United States[38], founded in 1847[39]; Salt Lake County[40], a county of Utah[41], in United States[42], founded in 1852[43]; South Salt Lake[44], a city in the United States[45], in United States[46], founded in 1847[47]; and North Salt Lake[48], a city in the United States[49], in United States[50], founded in 1946[51].
Why It Matters
Great Salt Lake has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]
Entities named for it include Salt Lake City[36], a city in the United States[37], in United States[38], founded in 1847[39]; Salt Lake County[40], a county of Utah[41], in United States[42], founded in 1852[43]; South Salt Lake[44], a city in the United States[45], in United States[46], founded in 1847[47]; and North Salt Lake[48], a city in the United States[49], in United States[50], founded in 1946[51].