Countries by Greatest High-Low Difference

Can you name the countries of the world with the greatest difference between their highest and lowest points?
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Last updated: March 6, 2016
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Rank
Range
Country
1
8,848 m
China
2
8,848 m
Nepal
3
8,611 m
Pakistan
4
8,588 m
India
5
7,473 m
Bhutan
6
7,234 m
Afghanistan
7
7,195 m
Tajikistan
8
7,142 m
Kazakhstan
9
7,065 m
Argentina
10
7,004 m
Kyrgyzstan
11
6,893 m
Chile
12
6,802 m
Peru
13
6,452 m
Bolivia
14
6,275 m
United States
15
6,267 m
Ecuador
16
5,959 m
Canada
17
5,892 m
Tanzania
18
5,881 m
Burma
19
5,700 m
Colombia
20
5,670 m
Russia
8 Comments
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Level 65
Mar 6, 2016
Source is "List of US States by Elevation"?
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Level 86
Mar 6, 2016
Fixed. Thanks.
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Level 85
Mar 6, 2016
Accept US please
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Level 86
Nov 12, 2019
USA is the standard abbreviation across Jetpunk.
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Level 85
Mar 6, 2016
So it's identical to the top 20 countries by high point (with very minor reordering).
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Level 86
Mar 6, 2016
Yeah, I expected some of the landlocked countries to have really high low points.
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Level 68
May 2, 2018
Your numbers don't seem to match the source?
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Level 62
Jun 10, 2021
This was great! I could not believe there was a +7000m country that I could not think of, but it turned out I'd just misspelled Afghanistan!