Caspian Depression

The Caspian Depression is a 600,000 km ² depression within the Aralo - Caspian lowlands in southeastern Europe.

It includes not only the damp and marshy Schwemmgebiete Ural and Volga north of the Caspian Sea, but also the entire up to 1,023 meters deep, filled to 995 m depth with a water basin of the lake and its riparian areas lying below sea level. The lowest - lying dry - place the sink is located east of the Caspian Sea, where the terrain is 132 m in the Karagije sink below the 0 meter contour line.

The highest point in the Caspian basin is the mountain Bogd Bolschoye the salt lake Baskunchak.

At the Caspian basin Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan share.