Elevation of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan

Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Iwakuni's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 4 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: 岩国.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 224 m

Mean 37 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 224 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 13

among the towns of Yamaguchi, and 886th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Ōtake

7.9 km to the N, at 10 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Iwakuni

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Iwakuni; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 157 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 220 m at 13 km north to 1 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Iwakuni, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Iwakuni

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ōtake (Hiroshima)	7.9 km	N	10 m (33 ft)	+5 m
Etajima (Hiroshima)	21.6 km	E	11 m (36 ft)	+6 m
Hatsukaichi (Hiroshima)	22.7 km	NE	3 m (10 ft)	−2 m
Yanai	25 km	SW	0 m (0 ft)	−5 m
Suooshima	26.7 km	S	2 m (7 ft)	−3 m

Peaks and passes near Iwakuni

Mont Misen, peak at 535 m (1,755 ft), 15.7 km to the NE — 530 m above the town.

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

Where Iwakuni is

Latitude 34.1665616, longitude 132.2188479. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Iwakuni'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 4 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.