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The following is a list of places on land located below mean sea level. (Note: on land, not in tunnels or mines).
(all figures are in meters below sea level)

★ Dead Sea, Israel - Jordan - West Bank (418 m)

★ Sea of Galilee, Israel (208 m)

★ Jordan valley, Israel - Jordan - West Bank

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★ Bet She'an, Israel (120 m)

★ Turfan Depression, China (154 m)

★ Lac Assal, Djibouti (153 m)

★ Qattara Depression, Egypt (133 m)

★ Caspian Depression, Karagiye, Kazakhstan (132 m)

★ Afar Depression, Ethiopia (125 m)

★ Laguna del Carbón, Argentina (105 m)

★ Badwater, Death Valley, USA (85.5 m)

★ Furnace Creek Airport (L06), Death Valley, USA (64 m)

★ Salton Sea, USA (66 m) and the Salton Sink:

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★ El Centro, California, USA (12 m)

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★ Indio, California, USA (6 m)

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★ Calipatria, California, USA (56 m)

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★ Coachella, California, USA (22 m)

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★ Brawley, California, USA (37 m)

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★ Holtville, California, USA (3 m)

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★ Imperial, California, USA (18 m)

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★ Westmorland, California, USA (48 m)

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★ Bombay Beach, California, USA (69 m)

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★ Desert Shores, California, USA (61 m)

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★ Heber, California, USA (5 m)

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★ Niland, California, USA (43 m)

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★ Salton City, California, USA (38 m)

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★ Salton Sea Beach, California, USA (67 m)

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★ Seeley, California, USA (13 m)

★ Sebkha paki Tah, Morocco (55 m)

★ Sabkhat Ghuzayyil, Libya (47 m)

★ Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic (46 m)

★ Salina Grande and Salina Chica, Chubut Province, Argentina (42 m)

★ Chott Melrhir, Algeria (40 m)

★ Caspian Sea and its shores, Russia - Kazakhstan - Azerbaijan - Iran - Turkmenistan (28 m)

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★ Caspian Depression, Russia - Kazakhstan

★ Shatt al Gharsah, Tunisia (17 m)

★ Lake Eyre, Australia (15 m)

★ Laguna Salada, Dominican Republic (10 m)

★ Zuidplaspolder, Netherlands (7 m)

★ Lammefjord, Denmark (7 m)

★ Sebkhet Te-n-Dghamcha, Mauritania (5 m)

★ Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (4 m)

★ Hachiro-gata, Japan (4 m)

★ The Fens, United Kingdom (4 m)

★ Neuendorf bei Wilster, Germany (3.5 m)

★ Kristianstad, Sweden (2.41 m)

★ New Orleans, USA (2.4 m)

★ Kuttanad, Kerala, India (2.2 m)

★ Rhone River delta, France (2 m)

★ unnamed location in Suriname (2 m)

★ Żuławy Wiślane, Poland (1.8 m)

★ Valli di Comacchio, Italy (0.6 m)

★ 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. If the ice melted it would be covered by sea.

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See also

★ Extreme points of the world

★ List of deepest ocean trenches

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