Elevation of Shymkent, Oņtüstik Ķazaķstan, Kazakhstan

Shymkent, Oņtüstik Ķazaķstan, Kazakhstan is 525 m (1,722 ft) above sea level.

Shymkent's height from sea level is 525 metres, or 1,722 feet. GeoNames reads 520 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 506 m.

Also written: Şımkent Simkent Chimkent Shimkent Чимкент.

Ground within 4 km

464 m – 582 m

Mean 523 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 118 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 25

among the towns of Oņtüstik Ķazaķstan, and 76th of 334 in Kazakhstan.

Nearest town

Aksu

24.3 km to the NE, at 606 m, 81 m higher.

Cross-section through Shymkent

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Shymkent; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 444 m at 13 km west to 615 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 457 m at 13 km north to 564 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Shymkent, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 52 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 Shymkent

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Aksu	24.3 km	NE	606 m (1,988 ft)	+81 m
Lenger	28.3 km	SE	806 m (2,644 ft)	+281 m

Where Shymkent is

Latitude 42.3166667, longitude 69.5958333. 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 Shymkent'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 520 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.