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:
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1 | NaN0NaN0 | in Afar Depression: lowest land in Africa | |||
| 2 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 3 | NaN0NaN0 | in Afar Depression | |||
| 4 | NaN0NaN0 | in the Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra region | |||
| 5 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 6 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 7 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 8 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 9 | Sebkha de Ndrhamcha | NaN0NaN0 |
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1 | canyon under Denman Glacier | bedrock is at -3500m (-11,400feet) | This is the lowest natural point on land.[1] [2] | ||
| 2 | Byrd Glacier | -2780m (-9,110feet) | [3] | ||
| 3 | Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills | NaN0NaN0 |
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest land in Asia and the world in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 2 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest fixed water crossing in the world 31.8742°N 35.5408°W in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 3 | -3450NaN0 | Israeli town just south of the Dead Sea. 30.9331°N 35.3767°W in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 4 | -2580NaN0 | lowest city in the world in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 5 | NaN0NaN0 | Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 6 | NaN0NaN0 | Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 7 | NaN0NaN0 | [4] | |||
| 8 | Caspian Depression, Karagiye | NaN0NaN0 | Caspian Basin | ||
| 9 | -1220NaN0 | (between Tiberias and Jericho) in Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan | |||
| 10 | Caspian Sea and its shores | NaN0NaN0 | Caspian Basin | ||
| 11 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 12 | NaN0NaN0 |
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1= | Caspian Sea and its shores | NaN0NaN0 | Caspian Depression | ||
| 1= | NaN0NaN0 | lowest lying national capital in the world, Caspian Depression | |||
| 3 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest international airport, Caspian Depression | |||
| 4= | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 4= | NaN0NaN0 | Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) | |||
| 6= | NaN0NaN0 | Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) | |||
| 6= | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 8= | NaN0NaN0 | Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) | |||
| 8= | NaN0NaN0 | Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) | |||
| 8= | NaN0NaN0 | Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) | |||
| 8= | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 12 | NaN1NaN1 | ||||
| 13= | parts of West Flanders | NaN0NaN0 | |||
| 13= | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 15 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 16= | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 16= | NaN0NaN0 | Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) | |||
| 16= | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 16= | NaN0NaN0 | Baltic delta of the Vistula River |
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1 | United States | NaN0NaN0[5] | lowest point in North America | ||
| 2 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 3 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 4 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 5 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 6 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 7 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest place on an island country. | |||
| 8 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 9 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 10= | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 10= | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 12 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 13 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 14 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 15 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 16 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 17 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 18 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 19 | United States | NaN0NaN0 | Salton Sink, NaN0NaN0 | ||
| 20 | United States | NaN0NaN0 |
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest land in Australia | |||
| 2 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 3 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest land in New Zealand |
| Name | Country | Depth | Notes / references | ||
| 1 | NaN0NaN0 | lowest land in the Americas | |||
| 2 | NaN0NaN0 | [6] | |||
| 3 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 4 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 5 | NaN0NaN0 | ||||
| 6 | NaN0NaN0 |
Deeper and larger than any of the trenches in the list above is the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica, at a depth of 2540m (8,330feet). 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.