Deepest Caves in the World
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Deepest Caves in the WorldKrubera-Voronja (2,224 m) and Veryovkina (2,209 m) are the world's only 2-km-plus caves, and both sit in the same Arabika Massif of Abkhazia/Georgia - which also holds Sarma (1,830 m) and Tovliani (1,760 m), giving one small region the four deepest systems on the planet. Beyond that cluster there is a steep 70-metre drop to Lamprechtsofen (1,727 m) in Austria, after which the list eases gradually through the French Alps (Gouffre Mirolda, Gouffre Jean-Bernard) and northern Spain. The concentration reflects thick, soluble limestone and high mountain relief, the two ingredients that let water carve such extraordinary vertical depth.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of Deepest Caves
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Explored Depth (m)
- Last updated
- 12 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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