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Sodom and Gomorrah
Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, oil on wood by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520; in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The modern industrial site of Sedom is located in southeastern Israel, situated near the southern end of the Dead Sea.1
It is positioned near the presumed location of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, taking its name from the Hebrew form of the name of the first of those cities. The site is home to the Dead Sea Works, which utilizes the shallow southwestern corner of the Dead Sea for its industrial operations.12