Lowest Dry Land Points on Earth
Key Findings
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Lowest Dry Land Points on EarthThe Dead Sea shore, at 430 metres below sea level, is the lowest exposed land on Earth by a huge margin, almost three times deeper than any other point on this list. Shared by Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, it is also one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world. The remaining depressions cluster far higher, between 28 and 154 metres below sea level, and are spread across arid regions: the Turfan Depression in China (154 m), Djibouti's Lake Assal (153 m) and Egypt's Qattara Depression (133 m). North America's lowest point, Badwater Basin in Death Valley (86 m), and South America's Laguna del Carbon (105 m) show that every inhabited continent has its own sub-sea-level basin. These depressions typically form in hot, dry rift valleys where evaporation outpaces any water inflow.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- List of places on land with elevations below sea level
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Depth Below Sea Level (metres)
- Last updated
- 7 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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