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The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
This is a list of places on land below mean sea level. Places artificially created such as tunnels, mines, basements, and dug holes, or places under water, 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.
The ecoregion is approximately contained within the Caspian Depression, a sunken geological region feeding in to the Caspian, the surface of which is itself at 28 meters (92 ft) below worldwide sea level. [4] The northern section is almost 900 km wide, and stretches up to 300 km inland across Russia and Kazakhstan.
It is the larger northern part of the wider Aral–Caspian Depression around the Aral and Caspian Seas. The level of the Caspian sea is 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, however several areas in the depression are even lower, and among them Karagiye near Aktau is the lowest at −132 metres (−433 ft).
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that the two had ...
sea level 63 m 207 ft Bahrain: Mountain of Smoke (Jabal ad Dukhan) 122 m 400 ft Persian Gulf: sea level 122 m 400 ft Bangladesh: Saka Haphong: 1063 m 3,488 ft Bay of Bengal: sea level 1063 m 3,488 ft Barbados: Mount Hillaby: 336 m 1,102 ft North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 336 m 1,102 ft Belarus: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara: 346 m 1,135 ft Neman: 90 m 295 ft
The lowest international airport is Atyrau Airport, near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, at 22 m (72 ft) below sea level, in the basin of the Caspian Sea. The lowest major city is Baku, Azerbaijan, located 28 m (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest-lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level.
No Caspian deposits are found on or within the Yergeni. These hills exhibit the usual black earth flora, and they have a settled population. [1] The eastern part of the steppe is a plain, lying for the most part 30 to 40 ft. below the level of the sea and sloping gently towards the Volga.