Elevation of Laškar Gāh, Hilmand, Afghanistan

Laškar Gāh, Hilmand, Afghanistan is 780 m (2,559 ft) above sea level.

Laškar Gāh's height from sea level is 780 metres, or 2,559 feet. GeoNames reads 786 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 773 m.

Also written: Lashkar Gah Lashkar Gāh Lashkarga Lashkargha Qal'eh-ye Best Qala-e Best Qala-i Bist Qala-ye Best Bust Lashkar Bazar لشگرگاه.

Ground within 5 km

762 m – 794 m

Mean 779 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 32 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 6

among the towns of Hilmand, and 77th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Nearest town

Gerešk

33 km to the NE, at 837 m, 57 m higher.

Cross-section through Laškar Gāh

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Laškar Gāh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 786 m at 13 km west to 773 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 806 m at 13 km north to 752 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Laškar Gāh, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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.

Towns near Laškar Gāh

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gerešk	33 km	NE	837 m (2,746 ft)	+57 m

Peaks and passes near Laškar Gāh

Dādak Ghunḏêy, hill at 941 m (3,087 ft), 14.6 km to the SE — 161 m above the town.
Tōp Ghunḏêy, hill at 891 m (2,923 ft), 14.9 km to the SE — 111 m above the town.
Sāmakah, hill at 877 m (2,877 ft), 11.8 km to the E — 97 m above the town.

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

Where Laškar Gāh is

Latitude 31.5832, longitude 64.360291. 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 Laškar Gāh'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 786 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.