Elevation of Āqčah, Jawzjān, Afghanistan

Āqčah, Jawzjān, Afghanistan is 294 m (965 ft) above sea level.

Āqčah's height from sea level is 294 metres, or 965 feet. GeoNames reads 293 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 283 m.

Also written: Āqchah Aqchah Aqucha Āqcheh.

Ground within 5 km

287 m – 300 m

Mean 293 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 13 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Jawzjān, and 115th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Cross-section through Āqčah

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 Āqčah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 287 m at 13 km west to 296 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 281 m at 13 km north to 341 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Āqčah, 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 Āqčah

Qizil Ghīr, hill at 488 m (1,601 ft), 24.3 km to the S — 194 m above the town.
Shōr Jūgak, hill at 428 m (1,404 ft), 24.2 km to the SW — 134 m above the town.
Qizil Chungak, hill at 425 m (1,394 ft), 24.7 km to the SW — 131 m above the town.

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

Where Āqčah is

Latitude 36.9014978, longitude 66.1831701. 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 Āqčah'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 293 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.