List of places on land with elevations below sea level.html



The following is a list of places below mean sea level that are on land; not in tunnels, mines or under water. All figures are in meters below sea level:

• Dead Sea, Israel - Jordan - West Bank (418 m) (1371 ft)
• Sea of Galilee, Israel (208 m) (682 ft)
• Turfan Depression, China (154 m) (505 ft)
• Lac Assal, Djibouti (153 m) (501 ft)
• Qattara Depression, Egypt (133 m) (436 ft)
• Caspian Depression, Karagiye, Kazakhstan (132 m) (433 ft)
• Afar Depression, Ethiopia (125 m) (410 ft)
• Jordan valley, Israel - Jordan - West Bank
  • Bet She'an, Israel (120 m) (393 ft)
• Laguna del Carbón, Argentina (105 m) (344 ft)
• Badwater, Death Valley, USA (86 m) (282 ft)
• Furnace Creek Airport (L06), Death Valley, USA (64 m) (209 ft)
• Salton Sea, USA (66 m) (216 ft) and the Salton Sink:
  • Bombay Beach, California, USA (69 m)
  • Brawley, California, USA (37 m)
  • Calipatria, California, USA (56 m)
  • Coachella, California, USA (22 m)
  • Desert Shores, California, USA (61 m)
  • El Centro, California, USA (12 m)
  • Heber, California, USA (5 m)
  • Holtville, California, USA (3 m)
  • Imperial, California, USA (18 m)
  • Indio, California, USA (6 m)
  • Niland, California, USA (43 m)
  • Salton City, California, USA (38 m)
  • Salton Sea Beach, California, USA (67 m)
  • Seeley, California, USA (13 m)
  • Thermal, California, USA (37 m)
  • Westmorland, California, USA (48 m)
• Sebkha paki Tah, Morocco (55 m)
• Sabkhat Ghuzayyil, Libya (47 m)
• Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic (46 m)
• Salina Grande and Salina Chica, Chubut Province, Argentina (42 m)
• Bajo del Gualicho, Península Valdés, Chubut Province, Argentina (41 m)
• Chott Melrhir, Algeria (40 m)
• Caspian Sea and its shores, Russia - Kazakhstan - Azerbaijan - Iran - Turkmenistan (28 m)
  • Caspian Depression, Russia - Kazakhstan
• Shatt al Gharsah, Tunisia (17 m)
• Lake Eyre, Australia (15 m)
• Ratnagiri, India 11 m (36 ft)
• Laguna Salada, Dominican Republic (10 m)
• Mumbai, India (8 m) (26 ft)
• Netherlands, coastal provinces (1 - 7 m)
  • Zuidplaspolder (7 m)
  • Haarlemmermeer (5 m)
    • Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (4 m)
  • Wieringermeer (4 m)
  • Flevoland (4 m)
• Lammefjord, Denmark (7 m)
• Sebkhet Te-n-Dghamcha, Mauritania (5 m)
• Hachirogata, Japan (4 m)
• The Fens, United Kingdom (4 m)
• Malvan, India 5 m (16 ft)
• Canvey Island, United Kingdom (6 m)
• Neuendorf bei Wilster, Germany (3.5 m)
• Kristianstad, Sweden (2.41 m)
• New Orleans, USA (2.4 m)
• Kuttanad, Kerala, India (2.2 m)
• Rhone River delta, France (2 m)
• Żuławy Wiślane, Poland (1.8 m)
• Valli di Comacchio, Italy (0.6 m)
• Lagos Island, Nigeria (0.2 m)

Deeper and larger than any of the trenches in the list above is the Bentley Subglacial Trench (2,540 m) in Antarctica. It is subglacial, meaning that it is permanently covered by the largest ice cap in the world. If the ice melted it would be covered by sea.

See also

• List of countries by lowest point
• Extreme points of the world
• List of deepest ocean trenches

External links

• Land Below Sea Level