Ranked: The World’s Deepest Caves

Key Takeaways

• Veryovkina Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia, is the world’s deepest known cave at 7,257 feet (2,212 meters), narrowly edging neighboring Krubera-Voronja by just 42 feet.
• Four of the 10 deepest caves are found in Abkhazia’s Arabika Massif, where soluble karst rock creates ideal conditions for deep cave systems.
• Many caves are still being explored, and a February 2026 expedition is attempting to prove Mexico’s Chevé Cave is the deepest of all.

Scaling the world’s tallest mountains is a well-charted pursuit, but descending into the planet’s deepest caves remains one of exploration’s last frontiers.

The world’s deepest cave plunges nearly seven times deeper than the Eiffel Tower is tall, descending 7,257 feet (2,212 meters) into the Earth. Seven of the 10 deepest caves reach more than a mile underground, and four of the deepest are clustered in a single karst mountain region in Abkhazia, Georgia.

This visualization shows the depth of the 10 deepest caves on Earth, using data from WorldAtlas, which measures their explored vertical depth from the highest entrance down to the lowest point reached.

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