Elevation of Iwŏn, Hamgyŏngnamdo, Korea (North)

Iwŏn, Hamgyŏngnamdo, Korea (North) is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Iwŏn's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Kunsŏng.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 303 m

Mean 32 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 303 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 20

among the towns of Hamgyŏngnamdo, and 125th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Sinchang

25.1 km to the SW, at 25 m, 21 m higher.

Cross-section through Iwŏn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Iwŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 687 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 295 m at 13 km north to 59 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Iwŏn, 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 Iwŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sinchang	25.1 km	SW	25 m (82 ft)	+21 m
Pukchŏng	27 km	W	50 m (164 ft)	+46 m
Tanchŏn	29.8 km	NE	29 m (95 ft)	+25 m

Peaks and passes near Iwŏn

Kwanam-san, peak at 1,490 m (4,888 ft), 22.9 km to the N — 1,486 m above the town.
Taedŏk-san, peak at 1,454 m (4,770 ft), 17.8 km to the W — 1,450 m above the town.
Yŏngdŏk-san, peak at 1,405 m (4,610 ft), 18 km to the W — 1,401 m above the town.
Maul-lyŏng, pass at 341 m (1,119 ft), 15.9 km to the NE.

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

Where Iwŏn is

Latitude 40.32, longitude 128.61. 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 Iwŏn'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 13 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.