The present disclosure provides an absorbent article wherein it is easy to discern the positioning place from the liquid-permeable sheet side, and it is easy to match the location where the absorbent article should be positioned when it is put on, with the location where it is to be placed on the wearer. The absorbent article of the disclosure has the following construction. The absorbent article (1) comprises a liquid-permeable sheet (3), an absorbent body (5), a colored layer (15) and a liquid-impermeable sheet (17), in that order, and has a lengthwise direction (L), a widthwise direction (W) and a thickness direction (T), the absorbent article (1) comprising an embossed region (29) including a pair of embossed sections (21) disposed in a mutually separated manner and a non-embossed section (27) situated between them, each of the pair of embossed sections (21) having the absorbent body (5) embossed but not having the colored layer (15) embossed, and the non-embossed section (27) not having the absorbent body (5) and colored layer (15) embossed, and in the embossed region (29), thicknesses of the embossed section-forming portions (31) of the absorbent body (5) are smaller than a thickness of a non-embossed section-forming portion (33) of the absorbent body (5).
