Elevation of Pakchŏn, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North)

Pakchŏn, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North) is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Pakchŏn's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 17 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 132 m

Mean 30 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 125 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 23

among the towns of Pyŏnganbukto, and 108th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Sinanju

13.5 km to the S, at 16 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Pakchŏn

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 Pakchŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 128 m at 13 km west to 40 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 74 m at 13 km north to 15 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Pakchŏn, 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 Pakchŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sinanju (Pyŏngannamdo)	13.5 km	S	16 m (52 ft)	+6 m
Anju (Pyŏngannamdo)	13.5 km	SE	43 m (141 ft)	+33 m
Yŏngbyŏn	21.8 km	NE	150 m (492 ft)	+140 m
Taechŏn	24.3 km	N	75 m (246 ft)	+65 m
Sin (Pyŏngannamdo)	27.3 km	S	9 m (30 ft)	−1 m

Peaks and passes near Pakchŏn

Madu-san, peak at 524 m (1,719 ft), 21.4 km to the SE — 514 m above the town.
Yak-san, peak at 490 m (1,608 ft), 20 km to the NE — 480 m above the town.
Namjang-dae, peak at 442 m (1,450 ft), 20.6 km to the NE — 432 m above the town.

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

Where Pakchŏn is

Latitude 39.71, longitude 125.58. 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 Pakchŏn'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 17 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.