Elevation of Songchŏn, Pyŏngannamdo, Korea (North)

Songchŏn, Pyŏngannamdo, Korea (North) is 70 m (230 ft) above sea level.

Songchŏn's height from sea level is 70 metres, or 230 feet. GeoNames reads 59 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

51 m – 340 m

Mean 115 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 289 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 18

among the towns of Pyŏngannamdo, and 53rd of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Kangdong

14.4 km to the SW, at 86 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Songchŏn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Songchŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 79 m at 13 km west to 448 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 190 m at 13 km north to 361 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Songchŏn, 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.

Towns near Songchŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kangdong (Pyŏngyang)	14.4 km	SW	86 m (282 ft)	+16 m
Changrim	15.3 km	NE	111 m (364 ft)	+41 m
Ŭnsan	23.4 km	NW	52 m (171 ft)	−18 m
Pyŏngsŏng	30.1 km	W	88 m (289 ft)	+18 m
Sunchŏn	30.7 km	NW	47 m (154 ft)	−23 m

Peaks and passes near Songchŏn

Maehwa-san, peak at 677 m (2,221 ft), 9 km to the NE — 607 m above the town.
Sabang-san, peak at 619 m (2,031 ft), 12.1 km to the S — 549 m above the town.
Hyŏnmyŏng-san, peak at 528 m (1,732 ft), 12.9 km to the W — 458 m above the town.

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

Where Songchŏn is

Latitude 39.24, longitude 126.21. 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 Songchŏn'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 59 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.