🧂 Salt Pans of the World

These are notable salt pans — flat basins where water evaporates and leaves gleaming crusts of salt, from coastal salinas worked for millennia to great inland flats like Bonneville and the Salar de Uyuni’s neighbours. Each profile shows where the pan lies, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia.

30 salt pans from 9 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any salt pan for its full profile.

Africa (4) Americas (23) Asia (2) Europe (1)

Africa (4 salt pans)

Americas (23 salt pans)

Asia (2 salt pans)

Europe (1 salt pans)

Coordinates are approximate locations. Descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached on our server. Data sourced from Wikidata. Related: Mountains · Lakes · Islands · World Heritage.