Elevation of Ŭiju, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North)

Ŭiju, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North) is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.

Ŭiju's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 26 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

4 m – 126 m

Mean 24 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 122 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 23

among the towns of Pyŏnganbukto, and 88th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

14.2 km to the SW, at 13 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Ŭiju

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ŭiju; the vertical scale is the same on both.

262-16WE25.4 km
West to east: from 54 m at 13 km west to 197 m at 13 km east.
262-16NS25.4 km
North to south: from 207 m at 13 km north to 15 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Ŭiju, 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 Ŭiju

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dandong (China) 14.2 kmSW 13 m (43 ft) −11 m
Sinŭiju 14.9 kmSW 8 m (26 ft) −16 m
Pihyŏn 21.4 kmS 27 m (89 ft) +3 m
Yongchŏn 23 kmS 15 m (49 ft) −9 m
Langtou (China) 23.8 kmSW 16 m (52 ft) −8 m

Peaks and passes near Ŭiju

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

Where Ŭiju is

Latitude 40.19, longitude 124.53. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ŭiju elevation: 24 m (79 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 Ŭiju'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 26 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.