Elevation of Suknat aš-Šūnah, al-Balqa', Jordan

Suknat aš-Šūnah, al-Balqa', Jordan is -290 m (-951 ft) above sea level.

Suknat aš-Šūnah's height from sea level is -290 metres, or -951 feet.

Also written: Soknet El-Shooneh سكنة الشونه.

Ground within 5 km

-381 m – -63 m

Mean -291 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 318 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 17

among the towns of al-Balqa', and 140th of 142 in Jordan.

Nearest town

Juwafat al-Kafrayn

6.6 km to the SE, at -217 m, 73 m higher.

Cross-section through Suknat aš-Šūnah

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 Suknat aš-Šūnah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from -193 m at 13 km west to 162 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from -270 m at 13 km north to -396 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Suknat aš-Šūnah, 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 Suknat aš-Šūnah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Juwafat al-Kafrayn	6.6 km	SE	-217 m (-712 ft)	+73 m
al-Karāmah	8.5 km	N	-230 m (-755 ft)	+60 m
Arīh̨ā (Palestine)	11.9 km	W	-255 m (-837 ft)	+35 m
'Aqbah Jabbar (Palestine)	14 km	SW	-253 m (-830 ft)	+37 m
Yarqā	14.4 km	NE	484 m (1,588 ft)	+774 m

Peaks and passes near Suknat aš-Šūnah

Jabal Nabā, peak at 710 m (2,329 ft), 19.3 km to the SE — 1,000 m above the town.
Rujm Şiyāghah, peak at 573 m (1,880 ft), 19.3 km to the SE — 863 m above the town.

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

Where Suknat aš-Šūnah is

Latitude 31.89, longitude 35.58. 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 Suknat aš-Šūnah'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.