Elevation of Eškašem, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Eškašem, Badakhshan, Afghanistan is 2,682 m (8,799 ft) above sea level.

Eškašem's height from sea level is 2,682 metres, or 8,799 feet. GeoNames reads 2,667 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3,057 m.

Also written: Eshkashem Eshkāshem Ashkasham Ashkāsham Ishkashim.

Ground within 5 km

2,487 m – 3,766 m

Mean 2,904 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 1,279 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 5

among the towns of Badakhshan, and 9th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Cross-section through Eškašem

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Eškašem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 4,109 m at 13 km west to 3,901 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 3,275 m at 13 km north to 4,261 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Eškašem, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Peaks and passes near Eškašem

Kōh-e Chūk Shākh, peak at 5,467 m (17,936 ft), 16.4 km to the NW — 2,785 m above the town.
Kōh-e Miyān Kōh, peak at 5,211 m (17,096 ft), 19.8 km to the NW — 2,529 m above the town.
Kōh-e Gharīb, peak at 3,252 m (10,669 ft), 20.2 km to the W — 570 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Eškašem is

Latitude 36.7091667, longitude 71.5738889. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Eškašem's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 2,667 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.