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Famous Salt Places

While Detroit is city that has along history with salt, it is certain not alone. Several places around the world have their origins around salt as a mineral. Many of these places were “salt licks” where animals congregated, providing hunting opportunities for early humans. Many of these places became settlements and eventually cities.

Just as Detroit’s history is “sprinkled” with salt, so too are these places. We invite you to explore the salty history of places around the world…..

• Anguilla, British West Indies
• Antisarbe, Madagascar
• Bonaire, Dutch Antilles, Caribbean
• Berchtesgaden, Germany
• Chesapeake Bay, Delaware  USA
• Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
• Dasht–e-Kavir, central Iran
• The Dead Sea, Southeastern Asia
• Elche, Southeastern Spain
• The Salt River Valley, Southeastern US
• The Great Salt Lake, Western US
• Salt Lake City, Utah, US
• Goderich, Ontario
• Halle, East Central Germany
• Hallstatt, Austria
• Hellweg plateau, Western Germany
• Kara-Bogaz Gol, Turkmenistan
• Lons Le-Saunier , Eastern France
• Luni River, Western India
• Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories, Canada
• McMurray, in Northern Alberta, Canada
• Nam Tso Lake, Western China
• Nantwich, Northwestern England
• Orem, Utah, Western US
• Red Deer Peninsula , Manitoba Canada
• Route Du Sel, France
• Salzburg, Germany
• Solikamsk, Russia
• Solbad Hall, Austria
• Sal Island, Northeastern Cape Verde
• Salinas River, Southwestern US
• Salinas, California, US
• Salskammergut Region, North Central Austria
• Schwabisch Hall, Southern Germany
• Schatt-al-Arab River, Southeastern Iraq
• Sulina, Eastern Romania
• St Maarten, Caribbean Nation
• Tempe, Arizona, US
• Toamsina, Madagascar
• Timbuktu, Mali
• Unity, Saskatchewan.
• Wieliczka-Bochnia, Poland

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