Elevation of Yongchŏn, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North)

Yongchŏn, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North) is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Yongchŏn's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

4 m – 41 m

Mean 14 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 37 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 23

among the towns of Pyŏnganbukto, and 104th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Yongampo

10.3 km to the SW, at 7 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Yongchŏn

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 Yongchŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 5 m at 13 km west to 45 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 7 m at 13 km north to 3 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Yongchŏn, 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 Yongchŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Yongampo	10.3 km	SW	7 m (23 ft)	−8 m
Langtou (China)	11.9 km	NW	16 m (52 ft)	+1 m
Sinŭiju	13.3 km	NW	8 m (26 ft)	−7 m
Pihyŏn	13.8 km	E	27 m (89 ft)	+12 m
Yŏmju	16.3 km	SE	27 m (89 ft)	+12 m

Peaks and passes near Yongchŏn

Ch’ŏndu-san, peak at 667 m (2,188 ft), 20.3 km to the E — 652 m above the town.
Mangil-san, peak at 613 m (2,011 ft), 21.3 km to the E — 598 m above the town.
Ryonggol-san, peak at 477 m (1,565 ft), 13.1 km to the E — 462 m above the town.
Chŏngsan-gogae, pass at 225 m (738 ft), 21.3 km to the E.

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

Where Yongchŏn is

Latitude 39.99, longitude 124.46. 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 Yongchŏn'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 21 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.