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Enlargeable U.S. map with state and territory high points shown as red dots and low points as green squares except where low point is a shoreline. Enlargeable map of the 50 U.S. states by mean elevation. This list includes the topographic elevations of each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. [1]
Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California: United States: −86 m (−282 ft) [5] lowest point in North America 2: Bombay Beach, California: United States: −69 m (−226 ft) Salton Sink −66 m (−217 ft) 3: Salton Sea Beach, California: United States: −67 m (−220 ft) Salton Sink −66 m (−217 ft) 4: Desert Shores, California: United States
Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [1] It is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney – the highest point in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [4]
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. [1] [2] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest. [3]
New Orleans, Louisiana – lowest city over 250,000 population in all U.S. territory and Western Hemisphere, with an average elevation of −1.5 feet (− Delaware 39°0′17″N 75°32′46″W / 39.00472°N 75.54611°W / 39.00472; -75.54611 ( State of Delaware ) – lowest state , with an average elevation of 60 feet
Northern California usually refers to the state's northernmost 48 counties. The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area (which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose), and Sacramento (the state capital) as well as its metropolitan area.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of California by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Too-man-i-goo-yah [6] or Too-man-go-yah [7]) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [1] It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) [8] west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater ...