Geography of Kazakhstan with an elevation of 7,010 meters, or 22,999 feet above sea level; the lowest point is the bottom of the Karagiye depression at 132 meters, or 433 feet below sea level, in the Mangystau province east of the Caspian Sea. Most of the country lies at between 200 and 300 meters above sea level, but Kazakhstan's Caspian shore includes some of the lowest elevations on Earth. The peak Khan Tengri in the Tian Shan Mountains (and on the border with Kyrgyzstan and China) is Kazakhstan highest elevation at 6995m (7010m with ice cap). Many of the peaks of the Altay
Water column Water column A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediment. Descriptively, the deep sea water column is divided into five parts—"pelagic zones" (from Greek πέλαγος (pélagos), 'open sea')—from the surface to below the floor, as follows: "epipelagic", from the surface to 200 meters below the surface; "mesopelagic", from 200 to 1000 meters below the surface; "bathypelagic", from 1000 to 4000 meters below the surface; "abyssopelagic", from 4000 meters below the surface to the level sea floor; "hadopelagic", depressions and crevices below the level sea floor. The