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. 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 sea level, arranged by depth, lowest first:
Afar Depression
Lake 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 Tah, Western Sahara, 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)]
Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, [−50 m (−164 ft)]
Jordan valley, Israel – West Bank – Jordan
Dead Sea, Jordan – West Bank – Israel [−423 m (−1,388 ft)], lowest land in Asia and the world 31°30′N 35°30′E
Jericho, West Bank [−258 m (−846 ft)], lowest city in the world 31.85°N 35.46°E / 31.85; 35.46
Bet She'an, Israel (between Tiberias and Jericho) [−122 m (−400 ft)] 32.50°N 35.50°E / 32.50; 35.50
Sea of Galilee, Israel [−214 m (−702 ft)] 32.80°N 35.60°E / 32.80; 35.60
Tiberias, Israel [−207 m (−679 ft)] 32.7966°N 35.535717°E / 32.7966; 35.535717
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)]
Kuttanad, India [−2 m (−7 ft)]
Hachirogata, Japan [−4 m (−13 ft)]
Caspian Depression
Caspian Sea and its shores, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Kazakhstan [−28 m (−92 ft)]
Baku, Azerbaijan [−28 m (−92 ft)], lowest lying national capital in the world
Atyrau Airport, Kazakhstan [−22 m (−72 ft)] – lowest international airport
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)]
Amsterdam [−2 m (−7 ft)]
Lammefjord, Denmark [−7 m (−23 ft)]
The Fens, United Kingdom [−2.75 m (−9 ft)]
Neuendorf-Sachsenbande, Germany [−4 m (−13 ft)]
Le Contane, Jolanda di Savoia, Italy [−3.44 m (−11.3 ft)]
North Slob, County Wexford, Ireland [−3 m (−10 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)]
Death Valley
Badwater Basin, California, United States [−85 m (−279 ft)] lowest point in North America
Salton Sink, United States [−66 m (−217 ft)]
Bombay Beach, California, United States [−69 m (−226 ft)]
Salton Sea Beach, California, United States [−67 m (−220 ft)]
Desert Shores, California, United States [−61 m (−200 ft)]
Calipatria, California, United States [−56 m (−184 ft)]
Westmorland, California, United States [−48 m (−157 ft)]
Niland, California, United States [−43 m (−141 ft)]
Salton City, California, United States [−38 m (−125 ft)]
Brawley, California, United States [−37 m (−121 ft)]
Thermal, California, United States [−37 m (−121 ft)]
Coachella, California, United States [−22 m (−72 ft)]
Imperial, California, United States [−18 m (−59 ft)]
Seeley, California, United States [−13 m (−43 ft)]
El Centro, California, United States [−12 m (−39 ft)]
Indio, California, United States [−6 m (−20 ft)]
Heber, California, United States [−5 m (−16 ft)]
Holtville, California, United States [−3 m (−10 ft)]
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States [−2 m (−7 ft)]
Laguna Salada, Baja California, Mexico [−10 m (−33 ft)]
Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic [−46 m (−151 ft)], lowest place on an ocean island.
Lake Eyre, Australia, −16 m (−52 ft), lowest land in Australia
Lake Frome, Australia, −6 m (−20 ft)
Lake Blanche, Australia, ?
Taieri Plain, New Zealand, −2 m (−7 ft)
Laguna del Carbón, Argentina [−105 m (−344 ft)] lowest land in the Americas
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)]
Laguna La Niña, Sechura Desert, Piura Region, Peru [−34 m (−112 ft)]
Georgetown, Guyana [−2 m (−7 ft)]
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 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.
