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Q: what country has the lowest "non-zero" and positive low point? Moldova, which is actually landlocked, but has a port reachable by smaller seagoing vessels -
by rob74 4y ago
Q: what country has the lowest "non-zero" and positive low point? Moldova, which is actually landlocked, but has a port reachable by smaller seagoing vessels - which I originally learnt when reading about the ship that carried the fertilizer that eventually caused the catastrophic Beirut explosion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rhosus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rhosus) - it was registered in Moldova...
This list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevation_extremes_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevation_extremes_by_... is really interesting if you're into such geographical trivia. For instance, I was surprised by how many countries have low points substantially below sea level. So far I was only aware of the Dead Sea and Death Valley...