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The Anadyr Lowlands () are a low alluvial plain located in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
The mouth of the Anadyr River flows into the Anadyr Gulf of the Bering Sea to the east. The harbor city of Anadyr is located by the mouth on the shore of Onemen Bay in the estuarine area of the river.Google Earth
The lowlands are a flat, mostly marshy tundra plain with a maximum height of above sea level. The whole area is dotted with lakes, the largest of which are Krasnoye and Yanragytgyn.Ана́дырская ни́зменность; Anadyr Lowland article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia Besides the Anadyr, rivers Velikaya, Tumanskaya River, Tretya River Tretya River and its place in regional ecology and Kanchalan River, flow across the lowlands. A few isolated small mountain ranges rise above the plain, such as the Ushkany Range, Zolotoy Range and Dionysia Range ranges.
Geologically the Anadyr Lowlands are composed of loose Quaternary sediments, constrained by permafrost.
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