The following is a list of places on land located below mean sea level.

(all figures are in meters below sea level)

1. Dead Sea, Israel - Jordan - West Bank (418 m)
2. Lac Assal, Djibouti (155 m)
3. Turpan Pendi, China (154 m)
4. Qattara Depression, Egypt (133 m)
5. Caspian Depression, Kazakhstan (132 m)
6. Afar Depression, Ethiopia (125 m)
7. Laguna del Carbon, Argentina (105 m)
8. Badwater, Death Valley, USA (85.5 m)
9. Salton Sea, USA (66 m)
10. Sebkha paki Tah, Morocco (55 m)
11. Sabkhat Ghuzayyil, Libya (47 m)
12. Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic (46 m)
13. Chott Melrhir, Algeria (40 m)
14. Brawley, California, USA (37 m)
15. Shores of Caspian sea, mostly in Russia and Kazakhstan (28 m)
16. Shatt al Gharsah, Tunisia (17 m)
17. Lake Eyre, Australia (15 m)
18. Laguna Salada, Mexico (10 m)
19. Zuidplaspolder, Netherlands (7 m)
20. Lammefjord, Denmark (7 m)
21. Sebkhet Te-n-Dghamcha, Mauritania (5 m)
22. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (4 m)
23. The Fens, United Kingdom (4 m)
24. Hachiro-gata, Japan (4 m)
25. Neuendorf bei Wilster, Germany (3.5 m)
26. New Orleans, USA (2.4 m)
27. Kuttinad, Kerala, India (2.2 m)
28. Rhone River delta, France (2 m)
29. unnamed location in Suriname (2 m)
30. Żuławy Wiślane, Poland (1.8 m)
31. Lagos Island, Nigeria (0.2 m)

Deeper and larger than any of the trenches in the list above is the Bentley Subglacial Trench (2,540 m) in Antarctica. It is subglacial, meaning that it is permanently covered by the largest ice cap in the world.

See also

• Extreme points of the world
• List of deepest ocean trenches
• Category:Depressions

Lists of places | Physical geography

Depresja (geografia)