Elevation of Kaechŏn, Pyŏngannamdo, Korea (North)

Kaechŏn, Pyŏngannamdo, Korea (North) is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Kaechŏn's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 35 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

23 m – 365 m

Mean 72 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 342 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 18

among the towns of Pyŏngannamdo, and 60th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Yŏngbyŏn

14.9 km to the NW, at 150 m, 94 m higher.

Cross-section through Kaechŏn

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 Kaechŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 63 m at 13 km west to 186 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 85 m at 13 km north to 77 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Kaechŏn, 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 Kaechŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Yŏngbyŏn (Pyŏnganbukto)	14.9 km	NW	150 m (492 ft)	+94 m
Kujang (Pyŏnganbukto)	21.9 km	NE	76 m (249 ft)	+20 m
Anju	22.1 km	SW	43 m (141 ft)	−13 m
Pakchŏn (Pyŏnganbukto)	27.4 km	W	10 m (33 ft)	−46 m
Sinanju	28.4 km	SW	16 m (52 ft)	−40 m

Peaks and passes near Kaechŏn

Yongmun-san, peak at 1,180 m (3,871 ft), 24.9 km to the NE — 1,124 m above the town.
Paekt’ap-san, peak at 1,150 m (3,773 ft), 17 km to the E — 1,094 m above the town.
Wŏlbong-san, peak at 1,032 m (3,386 ft), 19.5 km to the E — 976 m above the town.

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

Where Kaechŏn is

Latitude 39.7, longitude 125.9. 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 Kaechŏn'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 35 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.