List of places on land with elevations below sea level

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This is a list of places on land below mean sea level.

Places artificially created such as tunnels, mines, basements, and dug holes, or places under water, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc., are not included. Places where seawater and rainwater is pumped away are included. Fully natural places below sea level require a dry climate; otherwise, rain would exceed evaporation and fill the area.

All figures are in meters below mean sea level (as locally defined), arranged by depth, lowest first:

Africa

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1	Lake Assal	Djibouti	Template:Convert	in Afar Depression: lowest land in Africa
2	Qattara Depression	Egypt	Template:Convert
3	Danakil Depression	Ethiopia	Template:Convert	in Afar Depression
4	Sebkha Tah	Morocco	Template:Convert	in the Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra region
5	Sabkhat Ghuzayyil	Libya	Template:Convert
6	Lake Moeris	Egypt	Template:Convert
7	Chott Melrhir	Algeria	Template:Convert
8	Shatt al Gharsah	Tunisia	Template:Convert
9	Sebkha de Ndrhamcha	Mauritania	Template:Convert

Antarctica

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1	canyon under Denman Glacier		bedrock is at Template:Convert	This is the lowest natural point on land.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
2	Byrd Glacier		Template:Convert	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3	Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills		Template:Convert

Asia

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1	Dead Sea	Israel - Jordan – West Bank	Template:Convert	lowest land in Asia and the world Template:Coord in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
2	Allenby Bridge	Jordan – West Bank	Template:Convert	lowest fixed water crossing in the world Template:Coord in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
3	Neot HaKikar	Israel	Template:Convert	Israeli town just south of the Dead Sea. Template:Coord in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
4	Jericho	West Bank	Template:Convert	lowest city in the world Template:Coord in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
5	Sea of Galilee	Israel	Template:Convert	Template:Coord Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
6	Tiberias	Israel	Template:Convert	Template:Coord Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
7	Turfan Depression	China	Template:Convert	<ref name="readersnatural">Template:Cite book</ref>
8	Caspian Depression, Karagiye	Kazakhstan	Template:Convert	Caspian Basin
9	Bet She'an	Israel	Template:Convert	Template:Coord (between Tiberias and Jericho) in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
10	Caspian Sea and its shores	Russia – Kazakhstan – Azerbaijan – Iran – Turkmenistan	Template:Convert	Caspian Basin
11	Hachirōgata	Japan	Template:Convert
12	Kuttanad	India	Template:Convert

Europe

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1=	Caspian Sea and its shores	Azerbaijan, Russia, and Kazakhstan	Template:Convert	Caspian Depression
1=	Baku	Azerbaijan	Template:Convert	lowest lying national capital in the world, Caspian Depression
3	Atyrau Airport	Kazakhstan	Template:Convert	lowest international airport, Caspian Depression
4=	Lammefjord	Denmark	Template:Convert
4=	Zuidplaspolder	Netherlands	Template:Convert	Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)
6=	Haarlemmermeer	Netherlands	Template:Convert	Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)
6=	Kuialnyk Estuary	Ukraine	Template:Convert	Odesa oblast
8=	Amsterdam Schiphol Airport	Netherlands	Template:Convert	Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)
8=	Wieringermeer	Netherlands	Template:Convert	Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)
8=	Flevoland	Netherlands	Template:Convert	Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)
8=	Neuendorf-Sachsenbande	Germany	Template:Convert
12	Le Contane, Jolanda di Savoia	Italy	Template:Convert
13=	parts of West Flanders	Belgium	Template:Convert
13=	North Slob, County Wexford	Ireland	Template:Convert
15	The Fens	United Kingdom	Template:Convert
16=	Étang de Lavalduc	France	Template:Convert
16=	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Template:Convert	Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft)
16=	Kristianstad	Sweden	Template:Convert
16=	Żuławy Wiślane	Poland	Template:Convert	Baltic delta of the Vistula River

North America

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Sea level sign (2/3 of the way up the cliff face) above Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, USA

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1	Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California	United States	Template:Convert<ref name=USGSHighLow>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || lowest point in North America
2	Bombay Beach, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink Template:Convert
3	Salton Sea Beach, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink Template:Convert
4	Desert Shores, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink Template:Convert
5	Calipatria, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink Template:Convert
6	Westmorland, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink Template:Convert
7	Lake Enriquillo	Dominican Republic	Template:Convert	lowest place on an island country.
8	Niland, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink Template:Convert
9	Salton City, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
10=	Brawley, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
10=	Thermal, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
12	Coachella, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
13	Imperial, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
14	Seeley, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
15	El Centro, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
16	Laguna Salada, Baja California	Mexico	Template:Convert
17	Indio, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
18	Heber, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
19	Holtville, California	United States	Template:Convert	Salton Sink, Template:Convert
20	New Orleans, Louisiana	United States	Template:Convert

Oceania

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1	Lake Eyre	Australia	Template:Convert	lowest land in Australia
2	Lake Frome	Australia	Template:Convert
3	Taieri Plain	New Zealand	Template:Convert	lowest land in New Zealand
4	Lake Macleod	Australia	Template:Convert	Western Australia

South America

#	Name	Country	Depth	Notes / references
1	Laguna del Carbón	Argentina	Template:Convert	lowest land in the Americas
2	Laguna del Puesto, Santa Cruz province, Argentina	Argentina	Template:Convert	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3	Bajo del Gualicho, Río Negro province	Argentina	Template:Convert
4	Salina Grande and Salina Chica, Valdés Peninsula, Chubut Province	Argentina	Template:Convert
5	Sechura Depression, Sechura Desert, Piura Region	Peru	Template:Convert
6	Lagunillas Municipality, Zulia	Venezuela	Template:Convert
7	Georgetown, Guyana	Guyana	Template:Convert	Template:Citation needed

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Historic and 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 Template:Convert. It is subglacial, covered permanently by the largest glacier 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 during the geological past, as measured by continuous volume of atmospheric air below sea level, was the dry bed of the Mediterranean Sea of the late Miocene period during the Messinian salinity crisis.

See also

• Extreme points of Earth
• List of countries by lowest point
• List of submarine topographical features

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