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Garabogaz Bay depth map

Bay: average depth about 34 m, deepest 47 m (GEBCO_2026 grid).

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Sea level todayDrag the slider to lower the sea and see the land that would appear.

Sea level in metres below today’s. A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how the water would really drain.

Key

Sea depth

  • Deeper than 6,000 m
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m
  • 2,000 to 4,000 m
  • 1,000 to 2,000 m
  • 200 to 1,000 m
  • Shallower than 200 m (the continental shelf)

Land height

  • Land up to 500 m
  • 500 to 2,000 m
  • Above 2,000 m

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  • Seabed exposed when the sea is lowered A dashed white line marks today’s coast.

How to read the map. Darker blue is deeper water. Tap anywhere to see how deep the sea is there, or how high the land is, and the nearest named undersea feature. Depths come from the GEBCO_2026 grid, which in most of the deep ocean is predicted from satellite measurements of the sea surface rather than surveyed by ship, and the map’s tiles are coarser than the grid, so narrow trenches read shallower on the map than their true depth. Not for navigation.

Garabogaz Bay at a glance

  • 34 maverage depth
  • 34 mmedian depth
  • 47 mmaximum depth
  • 16,897 km²water area

Garabogaz Bay is a bay. It is very shallow: nowhere in it is deeper than a few tens of metres in the grid. Inside its outline the GEBCO grid has about 16,897 km² of water, with an average depth of about 34 m (the middle value is 34 m) and a maximum of 47 m, found at 41.45° N, 54.11° E.

Open the map at the deepest cell and tap to read the depth.

How deep is each part of the Garabogaz Bay?

The bar splits the Garabogaz Bay's water by depth. Each colour is a depth band, and the shares add up to 100%.

  • 0 to 200 m: 100%
  • 200 to 1,000 m: 0%
  • 1,000 to 4,000 m: 0%
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m: 0%
  • below 6,000 m: 0%

Named features near the deepest point: Danube Canyon (1,952 km), Eratosthenes Seamount (2,072 km), Herodotus Basin (2,483 km), Red Sea Rift (2,732 km).

The Garabogaz Bay if sea level dropped

The slider on the map lowers the sea in steps. This table shows how much of the Garabogaz Bay's water would be land at each step.

Sea level lowered byBecomes landShare of its water
10 m3 km²under 0.1%
20 m15 km²under 0.1%
50 m16,897 km²100%
80 m16,897 km²100%
120 m16,897 km²100%
200 m16,897 km²100%
500 m16,897 km²100%
1,000 m16,897 km²100%
2,000 m16,897 km²100%
3,000 m16,897 km²100%
4,000 m16,897 km²100%
6,000 m16,897 km²100%

A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how water would really drain.

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Frequently asked questions

How deep is the Garabogaz Bay?

On average about 34 m in the GEBCO grid (the middle value is 34 m). The deepest cell inside its outline is 47 m, at 41.45° N, 54.11° E.

How big is the Garabogaz Bay?

About 16,897 km² of water inside its Natural Earth outline, counted from the grid cells that are below sea level.

How much of the Garabogaz Bay would be land if sea level dropped?

With the sea 50 m lower, about 16,897 km² (100%) of its water would be land. At 6,000 m lower, 100% would be. This is a simple bathtub model that lowers the sea evenly everywhere.

Data: depths from the GEBCO_2026 grid, statistics worked out inside the Natural Earth outline of the bay. See data sources and licences. The GEBCO Grid should NOT be used for navigation or for any other purpose involving safety at sea.

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