Elevation of Kilchu, Hamgyŏngbukto, Korea (North)

Kilchu, Hamgyŏngbukto, Korea (North) is 132 m (433 ft) above sea level.

Kilchu's height from sea level is 132 metres, or 433 feet. GeoNames reads 129 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

87 m – 349 m

Mean 169 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 262 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 21

among the towns of Hamgyŏngbukto, and 36th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Myŏngchŏn

15.3 km to the NE, at 235 m, 103 m higher.

Cross-section through Kilchu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kilchu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 640 m at 13 km west to 238 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 527 m at 13 km north to 131 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Kilchu, 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 Kilchu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Myŏngchŏn	15.3 km	NE	235 m (771 ft)	+103 m
Hau	29.5 km	NE	121 m (397 ft)	−11 m
Kimchaek	34.1 km	S	2 m (7 ft)	−130 m
Myŏngan	38.1 km	NE	58 m (190 ft)	−74 m

Peaks and passes near Kilchu

Hangmu-san, peak at 1,642 m (5,387 ft), 23.9 km to the NW — 1,510 m above the town.
Tŏkki-bong, peak at 1,330 m (4,364 ft), 19.3 km to the W — 1,198 m above the town.
Hagŏn-bong, peak at 1,278 m (4,193 ft), 20.1 km to the W — 1,146 m above the town.
P’ija-ryŏng, pass at 401 m (1,316 ft), 19.8 km to the N.

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

Where Kilchu is

Latitude 40.96, longitude 129.32. 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 Kilchu'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 129 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.