Elevation of Wŏnsan, Kangwŏn, Korea (North)

Wŏnsan, Kangwŏn, Korea (North) is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Wŏnsan's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 254 m

Mean 43 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 254 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 11

among the towns of Kangwŏn, and 94th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Anbyŏn

13.5 km to the SE, at 48 m, 28 m higher.

Cross-section through Wŏnsan

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 Wŏnsan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 444 m at 13 km west to 71 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 67 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Wŏnsan, 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 Wŏnsan

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Anbyŏn	13.5 km	SE	48 m (157 ft)	+28 m
Munchŏn	30.9 km	NW	5 m (16 ft)	−15 m
Chŏnnae (Hamgyŏngnamdo)	31.2 km	NW	20 m (66 ft)	same
Kosan	33.2 km	S	178 m (584 ft)	+158 m
Kowŏn (Hamgyŏngnamdo)	34.7 km	NW	5 m (16 ft)	−15 m

Peaks and passes near Wŏnsan

Hwangnyong-san, peak at 1,268 m (4,160 ft), 22.8 km to the SE — 1,248 m above the town.
Paegam-san, peak at 1,225 m (4,019 ft), 19.6 km to the SW — 1,205 m above the town.
Changsa-bong, peak at 618 m (2,028 ft), 17.8 km to the W — 598 m above the town.

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

Where Wŏnsan is

Latitude 39.1475, longitude 127.4461111. 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 Wŏnsan'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 7 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.