Namak Lake (
Daryacheh-ye Namak) (
Persian for
Salt Lake) is a salt lake in
Iran. It is located approximately east of the City of
Qom at an elevation of above sea level. The lake has a surface area of about 1800 km², but most of this is dry. Water only covers 1 km². The lake only reaches a depth between 45 centimetres to 1 metre. The most important water supply is the river
Qom. The lake is a remnant of the
Paratethys sea, which started to dry from the
Pleistocene epoch, leaving
lake Urmia and the
Caspian sea and other bodies of water.