The CIA World Factbook Edition 2003 Geography
Elevation In 29 editions of 36.
Elevation was published in 29 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1997 to 2025. The 2003 edition carries it in 268 entries, in its Geography section, under the heading “Elevation extremes”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2003 edition
- 268
- the first edition with it
- 1997
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Elevation extremes” (1997 to 2015) and “Elevation” (2016 to 2025).
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World
1 entryWorld
- lowest point:
- Bentley Subglacial Trench -2,540 m
note: in the oceanic realm, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the lowest point, lying -10,924 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean
- highest point:
- Mount Everest 8,850 m (1999 est.)
Africa
62 entriesBotswana
- lowest point:
- junction of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers 513 m
- highest point:
- Tsodilo Hills 1,489 m
Cape Verde now Cabo Verde
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mt. Fogo 2,829 m (a volcano on Fogo Island)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Pic Marguerite on Mont Ngaliema (Mount Stanley) 5,110 m
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mount Berongou 903 m
Guinea-Bissau
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- unnamed location in the northeast corner of the country 300 m
Lesotho
- lowest point:
- junction of the Orange and Makhaleng Rivers 1,400 m
- highest point:
- Thabana Ntlenyana 3,482 m
Malawi
- lowest point:
- junction of the Shire River and international boundary with Mozambique 37 m
- highest point:
- Sapitwa (Mount Mlanje) 3,002 m
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Queen Mary's Peak on Tristan da Cunha 2,060 m
Antarctic Region
5 entriesAntarctica
- lowest point:
- Bentley Subglacial Trench -2,555 m
- highest point:
- Vinson Massif 4,897 m
note: the lowest known land point in Antarctica is hidden in the Bentley Subglacial Trench; at its surface is the deepest ice yet discovered and the world's lowest elevation not under seawater
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- lowest point:
- Indian Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mont Ross on Iles Kerguelen 1,850 m
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- lowest point:
- Indian Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mawson Peak, on Big Ben 2,745 m
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mount Paget (South Georgia) 2,934 m
Arctic Region
4 entriesIceland
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Hvannadalshnukur 2,119 m (at Vatnajokull glacier)
Asia
23 entriesBritish Indian Ocean Territory
- lowest point:
- Indian Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- unnamed location on Diego Garcia 15 m
Kazakhstan
- lowest point:
- Vpadina Kaundy -132 m
- highest point:
- Khan Tangiri Shyngy (Pik Khan-Tengri) 6,995 m
Kyrgyzstan
- lowest point:
- Kara-Daryya (Karadar'ya) 132 m
- highest point:
- Jengish Chokusu (Pik Pobedy) 7,439 m
Maldives
- lowest point:
- Indian Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- unnamed location on Wilingili island in the Addu Atoll 2.4 m
Turkmenistan
- lowest point:
- Vpadina Akchanaya -81 m; note - Sarygamysh Koli is a lake in northern Turkmenistan with a water level that fluctuates above and below the elevation of Vpadina Akchanaya (the lake has dropped as low as -110 m)
- highest point:
- Gora Ayribaba 3,139 m
Central America and the Caribbean
32 entriesBahamas, The now The Bahamas
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mount Alvernia, on Cat Island 63 m
Montserrat
- lowest point:
- Caribbean Sea 0 m
- highest point:
- Chances Peak (in the Soufriere Hills volcanic complex) 914 m
Europe
46 entriesItaly
- lowest point:
- Mediterranean Sea 0 m
- highest point:
- Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) de Courmayeur 4,748 m (a secondary peak of Mont Blanc)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia
- lowest point:
- Vardar River 50 m
- highest point:
- Golem Korab (Maja e Korabit) 2,753 m
Portugal
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Ponta do Pico (Pico or Pico Alto) on Ilha do Pico in the Azores 2,351 m
Spain
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Pico de Teide (Tenerife) on Canary Islands 3,718 m
Sweden
- lowest point:
- reclaimed bay of Lake Hammarsjon, near Kristianstad -2.41 m
- highest point:
- Kebnekaise 2,111 m
Middle East
17 entriesIraq
- lowest point:
- Persian Gulf 0 m
- highest point:
- unamed peak 3,611 m; note - this peak is not Gundah Zhur 3,607 m or Kuh-e Hajji-Ebrahim 3,595 m
North America
6 entriesSaint Pierre and Miquelon
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Morne de la Grande Montagne 240 m
Oceania
34 entriesMicronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- lowest point:
- Pacific Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Dolohmwar (Totolom) 791 m
Northern Mariana Islands
- lowest point:
- Pacific Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- unnamed location on Agrihan 965 m
South America
14 entriesArgentina
- lowest point:
- Salinas Chicas -40 m (located on Peninsula Valdes)
- highest point:
- Cerro Aconcagua 6,960 m
Colombia
- lowest point:
- Pacific Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Pico Cristobal Colon 5,775 m
note: nearby Pico Simon Bolivar also has the same elevation
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- lowest point:
- Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- highest point:
- Mount Usborne 705 m
Paraguay
- lowest point:
- junction of Rio Paraguay and Rio Parana 46 m
- highest point:
- Cerro Pero (Cerro Tres Kandu) 842 m
Southeast Asia
19 entriesParacel Islands
- lowest point:
- South China Sea 0 m
- highest point:
- unnamed location on Rocky Island 14 m
Spratly Islands
- lowest point:
- South China Sea 0 m
- highest point:
- unnamed location on Southwest Cay 4 m
East Timor now Timor-Leste
- lowest point:
- Timor Sea, Savu Sea, and Banda Sea 0 m
- highest point:
- Foho Tatamailau 2,963 m
Oceans
5 entriesAtlantic Ocean
- lowest point:
- Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 m
- highest point:
- sea level 0 m
Pacific Ocean
- lowest point:
- Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench -10,924 m
- highest point:
- sea level 0 m
Southern Ocean
- lowest point:
- -7,235 m at the southern end of the South Sandwich Trench
- highest point:
- sea level 0 m
Cite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2003, “Elevation”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/elevation/2003.