Where is the deepest land gorge on Earth?
Answer
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
Where is the deepest land gorge on Earth? The deepest land gorge is the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet.
Also called the Tsangpo Gorge or Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, it follows the Yarlung Tsangpo River as it cuts through the eastern Himalayas in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.
The gorge reaches a maximum depth of about 6,009 metres around Mount Namcha Barwa and Gyala Peri. Its dramatic depth results from the river’s passage between these high Himalayan peaks.
The Grand Canyon in the United States is famous and exceptionally large, but it is not the deepest gorge on land. The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the appropriate answer for this question.