The largest salt lake in the world is 12,000 sq km (4600 sq mile.) What is the name of it and where is it located?

McGruff

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. The Salar de Uyuni, largest salt lake on Earth. http://www.min.tu-clausthal.de/www/lager/excursion/pict_07.htm Sep 29 00, 5:22 PM

Brainy Blonde

I have always believed it is the Caspian Sea as well. It has been listed as the largest lake in the world by Guinness, ever since I could read, even though it is called a sea. However, using the measurements of the question, the Caspian Sea is way to big. The world's largest salt water lake is the Caspian Sea. It covers an area of 143,250 square miles. It is approximately 750 miles long and varies from 130 to 300 miles in width. It has no tides. See: http://www.plymouth.lib.mi.us/faqsaltlake.htm Salt Lake City also claims to have the world's largest salt water lake, but the size is wrong again, as asked by the question. Salar of Uyuni. Uyuni is a town next to the biggest salt lake in the world (according to Bolivians) See: http://www.biketrip.org/documents/trip_uyuni.php The lake Salar de Uyuni is only an actual lake, with water, for a few weeks or months each year (but sometimes there is no water for a period of many years). For it is not water that makes it a lake but a sea of salt. Slightly over twelve thousand square kilometers in size and perched high in the altiplano at 3720 meters, Salar de Tunupa is a vast expanse of the whitest white I have seen anywhere on the earth. See: http://www.sacredsites.com/pilgrim/3/oct29.html Therefore, the answer to the question what is the largest salt water lake in the world? It is the Caspian Sea. The answer to the question what salt water lake is 12,000 square kilometers? Salar de Uyuni is the correct answer. Mar 18 02, 12:35 AM