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 1 400 feet 427 meters below sea level earths lowest elevation on land the dead sea is 1 003 feet 306 meters deep the deepest hypersaline lake in the world with 342 salinity in 2011 it is also one of the worlds saltiest bodies of water though lake vanda in antarctica 35 lake assal djibouti 348 lagoon garabogazkl in the caspian sea up