List of places on land with elevations below sea level
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This is a list of places below mean sea level that are on land. Places in tunnels, mines, basements, dug holes (also with open sky), under water, under ice, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc. are not included. All figures are in meters below sea level:
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Africa
- Afar Depression
- Lac Assal, Djibouti, [−153 m (−502 ft)] lowest land in Africa
- Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, [−125 m (−410 ft)]
- Qattara Depression, Egypt, [−133 m (−436 ft)]
- Sebkha paki Tah, Morocco, in the Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra region [−55 m (−180 ft)]
- Sabkhat Ghuzayyil, Libya [−47 m (−154 ft)]
- Chott Melrhir, Algeria, [−40 m (−131 ft)]
- Shatt al Gharsah, Tunisia, [−17 m (−56 ft)]
- Sebkhet Te-n-Dghamcha, Mauritania, [−5 m (−16 ft)]
Asia
- Jordan valley, Israel - West Bank - Jordan
- Turfan Depression, China [−154 m (−505 ft)]
- Caspian Basin
- Caspian Depression, Karagiye, Kazakhstan [−138 m (−453 ft)]
- Caspian Sea and its shores, Russia - Kazakhstan - Azerbaijan - Iran - Turkmenistan [−28 m (−92 ft)] lowest land in Europe
- Mandvi, Gujarat, India [−15 m (−49 ft)]
- Kuttanad, Kerala, India [−2 m (−7 ft)]
- Hachirogata, Japan [−4 m (−13 ft)]
Oceania
- Lake Eyre, Australia, −16 m (−52 ft)
- Taieri Plain, New Zealand, −2 m (−7 ft)
Europe
(arranged by depth, lowest first)
- Atyrau Airport, Kazakhstan [−22 m (−72 ft)]
- Netherlands, coastal provinces [(−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)]
- Zuidplaspolder [−7 m (−23 ft)]
- Haarlemmermeer [−5 m (−16 ft)]
- Amsterdam Schiphol Airport [−4 m (−13 ft)]
- Wieringermeer [−4 m (−13 ft)]
- Flevoland [−4 m (−13 ft)]
- Lammefjord, Denmark [−7 m (−23 ft)]
- The Fens, United Kingdom [−4 m (−13 ft)]
- Neuendorf-Sachsenbande, Germany [−4 m (−13 ft)]
- Le Contane, Jolanda di Savoia, Italy [−3.44 m (−11.3 ft)]
- Camargue, France [−2 m (−7 ft)]
- Kristianstad, Sweden [−2 m (−7 ft)]
- Żuławy Wiślane, Poland, Baltic delta of the Vistula River [−2 m (−7 ft)]
North America
- Death Valley
- Badwater, Death Valley, USA [−86 m (−282 ft)] lowest land in North America
- Furnace Creek Airport (L06), Death Valley, USA [−64 m (−210 ft)]
- Salton Sink, USA [−66 m (−217 ft)]
- Bombay Beach, California, USA [−69 m (−226 ft)]
- Salton Sea Beach, California, USA [−67 m (−220 ft)]
- Desert Shores, California, USA [−61 m (−200 ft)]
- Calipatria, California, USA [−56 m (−184 ft)]
- Westmorland, California, USA [−48 m (−157 ft)]
- Niland, California, USA [−43 m (−141 ft)]
- Salton City, California, USA [−38 m (−125 ft)]
- Brawley, California, USA [−37 m (−121 ft)]
- Thermal, California, USA [−37 m (−121 ft)]
- Coachella, California, USA [−22 m (−72 ft)]
- Imperial, California, USA [−18 m (−59 ft)]
- Seeley, California, USA [−13 m (−43 ft)]
- El Centro, California, USA [−12 m (−39 ft)]
- Indio, California, USA [−6 m (−20 ft)]
- Heber, California, USA [−5 m (−16 ft)]
- Holtville, California, USA [−3 m (−10 ft)]
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA [−2 m (−7 ft)]
- Laguna Salada, Mexico [−10 m (−33 ft)]
- Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic [−46 m (−151 ft)]
South America
- Laguna del Carbón, Argentina [−105 m (−344 ft)] lowest land in South America
- Bajo del Gualicho, Río Negro province, Argentina [−72 m (−236 ft)]
- Salina Grande and Salina Chica, Península Valdés, Chubut Province, Argentina [−42 m (−138 ft)]
- Georgetown, Guyana [−2 m (−7 ft)]
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Historic & Ice covered areas
Deeper and larger than any of the trenches in the list above is the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica, at a depth of 2,540 m (8,330 ft). It is subglacial, meaning that it is permanently covered by the largest ice cap in the world. Therefore it is not included in any list on the page. If the ice melted it would be covered by sea.
The biggest dry land area below sea level that has been known to exist in the geological past, as measured by continuous volume of atmospheric air below sea level, was the dry bed of the Mediterranean Sea in the late Miocene period during the Messinian salinity crisis.