Elevation of Sunan, Pyŏngyang, Korea (North)

Sunan, Pyŏngyang, Korea (North) is 26 m (85 ft) above sea level.

Sunan's height from sea level is 26 metres, or 85 feet. GeoNames reads 37 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

19 m – 117 m

Mean 42 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 5

among the towns of Pyŏngyang, and 82nd of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

16.8 km to the E, at 88 m, 62 m higher.

Cross-section through Sunan

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 Sunan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2251WE25.5 km
West to east: from 148 m at 13 km west to 209 m at 13 km east.
2251NS25.5 km
North to south: from 70 m at 13 km north to 55 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Sunan, 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 Sunan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pyŏngsŏng (Pyŏngannamdo) 16.8 kmE 88 m (289 ft) +62 m
Sukchŏn (Pyŏngannamdo) 23 kmN 26 m (85 ft) same
Pyŏngyang 30.3 kmSE 20 m (66 ft) −6 m
Sunchŏn (Pyŏngannamdo) 33.3 kmNE 47 m (154 ft) +21 m
Sin (Pyŏngannamdo) 35.1 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) −17 m

Peaks and passes near Sunan

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

Where Sunan is

Latitude 39.205276, longitude 125.67028. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sunan elevation: 26 m (85 ft) above sea level

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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 Sunan'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 37 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.