Elevation of Pukchŏng, Hamgyŏngnamdo, Korea (North)

Pukchŏng, Hamgyŏngnamdo, Korea (North) is 50 m (164 ft) above sea level.

Pukchŏng's height from sea level is 50 metres, or 164 feet. GeoNames reads 78 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

14 m – 492 m

Mean 127 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 478 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 20

among the towns of Hamgyŏngnamdo, and 63rd of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Sinchang

17.1 km to the SE, at 25 m, 25 m lower.

Cross-section through Pukchŏng

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 Pukchŏng; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 204 m at 13 km west to 499 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 439 m at 13 km north to 67 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Pukchŏng, 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 Pukchŏng

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sinchang	17.1 km	SE	25 m (82 ft)	−25 m
Sinpo	26.2 km	SW	1 m (3 ft)	−49 m
Iwŏn	27 km	E	4 m (13 ft)	−46 m
Hongwŏn	37.9 km	SW	5 m (16 ft)	−45 m

Peaks and passes near Pukchŏng

Taedŏk-san, peak at 1,454 m (4,770 ft), 11.7 km to the NE — 1,404 m above the town.
Yŏngdŏk-san, peak at 1,405 m (4,610 ft), 15 km to the NE — 1,355 m above the town.
Kŏdu-bong, peak at 1,304 m (4,278 ft), 20.5 km to the W — 1,254 m above the town.
Nŭptŏgi-ryŏng, pass at 1,317 m (4,321 ft), 23.8 km to the W.

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

Where Pukchŏng is

Latitude 40.24, longitude 128.31. 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 Pukchŏng'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 78 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.