Elevation of Kosŏng, Kangwŏn, Korea (North)

Kosŏng, Kangwŏn, Korea (North) is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Kosŏng's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 315 m

Mean 45 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 315 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Kangwŏn, and 115th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Changjŏn

12.7 km to the NW, at 4 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Kosŏng

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kosŏng; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 163 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 67 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Kosŏng, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Kosŏng

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Changjŏn	12.7 km	NW	4 m (13 ft)	−4 m

Peaks and passes near Kosŏng

Piro-bong, peak at 1,638 m (5,374 ft), 17 km to the W — 1,630 m above the town.
Changgun-bong, peak at 1,602 m (5,256 ft), 14.8 km to the W — 1,594 m above the town.
Ch’aeha-bong, peak at 1,596 m (5,236 ft), 13.3 km to the W — 1,588 m above the town.

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

Where Kosŏng is

Latitude 38.67, longitude 128.3. 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 Kosŏng'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 10 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.