Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Dead Sea, between Jordan and Israel
The lowest place in the world
If the highest part of the land is a mountaintop, where do you think the
lowest place must be?
That’s right—in a valley.
The lowest bit of dry land in the world is the Valley of the Dead Sea,
between Jordan and Israel. The land there is 1,312 feet (about 400
meters) below the level of the nearby Mediterranean Sea.
The Valley of the Dead Sea was not made by a river, as many valleys are.
It is a fault—a large strip of the earth’s crust that has sunk down.
