Elevation of Hamhŭng, Hamgyŏngnamdo, Korea (North)

Hamhŭng, Hamgyŏngnamdo, Korea (North) is 18 m (59 ft) above sea level.

Hamhŭng's height from sea level is 18 metres, or 59 feet. GeoNames reads 16 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

6 m – 271 m

Mean 36 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 265 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 20

among the towns of Hamgyŏngnamdo, and 98th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Chigyŏng

10.8 km to the SW, at 16 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Hamhŭng

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 Hamhŭng; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 54 m at 13 km west to 188 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 55 m at 13 km north to 4 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Hamhŭng, 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 Hamhŭng

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chigyŏng	10.8 km	SW	16 m (52 ft)	−2 m
Hŭngnam	12.1 km	SE	3 m (10 ft)	−15 m
Oro	13.1 km	NW	33 m (108 ft)	+15 m
Tŏksangwan	14.1 km	NE	65 m (213 ft)	+47 m
Chŏngpyŏng	19.5 km	SW	10 m (33 ft)	−8 m

Peaks and passes near Hamhŭng

Mannyŏn-san, peak at 850 m (2,789 ft), 21.7 km to the W — 832 m above the town.
Ponghwa-san, peak at 814 m (2,671 ft), 20.3 km to the NE — 796 m above the town.
Pae-bong, peak at 650 m (2,133 ft), 19.7 km to the NE — 632 m above the town.

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

Where Hamhŭng is

Latitude 39.9166667, longitude 127.5333333. 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 Hamhŭng'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 16 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.