Elevation of Sunchŏn, Pyŏngannamdo, Korea (North)

Sunchŏn, Pyŏngannamdo, Korea (North) is 47 m (154 ft) above sea level.

Sunchŏn's height from sea level is 47 metres, or 154 feet. GeoNames reads 72 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

38 m – 124 m

Mean 59 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 86 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 18

among the towns of Pyŏngannamdo, and 65th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Ŭnsan

7.6 km to the SE, at 52 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Sunchŏn

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 Sunchŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 126 m at 13 km west to 78 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 76 m at 13 km north to 117 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Sunchŏn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Sunchŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ŭnsan	7.6 km	SE	52 m (171 ft)	+5 m
Pyŏngsŏng	21.2 km	S	88 m (289 ft)	+41 m
Sukchŏn	26.7 km	W	26 m (85 ft)	−21 m
Songchŏn	30.7 km	SE	70 m (230 ft)	+23 m
Kaechŏn	31.3 km	N	56 m (184 ft)	+9 m

Peaks and passes near Sunchŏn

Mukpang-san, peak at 1,011 m (3,317 ft), 19.6 km to the N — 964 m above the town.
Chamo-san, peak at 559 m (1,834 ft), 15.5 km to the SW — 512 m above the town.
Pongnin-san, peak at 551 m (1,808 ft), 16.4 km to the SW — 504 m above the town.

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

Where Sunchŏn is

Latitude 39.42, longitude 125.94. 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 Sunchŏn'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 72 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.