Elevation of Pyŏksŏng, Hwanghaenamdo, Korea (North)

Pyŏksŏng, Hwanghaenamdo, Korea (North) is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

Pyŏksŏng's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Chwiya.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 256 m

Mean 29 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 256 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 9

among the towns of Hwanghaenamdo, and 105th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Haeju

13.6 km to the E, at 56 m, 43 m higher.

Cross-section through Pyŏksŏng

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pyŏksŏng; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 158 m at 13 km west to 93 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 308 m at 13 km north to 93 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Pyŏksŏng, 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 Pyŏksŏng

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Haeju	13.6 km	E	56 m (184 ft)	+43 m
Ongjin	22 km	SW	17 m (56 ft)	+4 m
Ayang	26 km	NE	125 m (410 ft)	+112 m
Sinchŏn	35 km	N	32 m (105 ft)	+19 m
Chaeryong	38.2 km	N	30 m (98 ft)	+17 m

Peaks and passes near Pyŏksŏng

Suyang-san, peak at 945 m (3,100 ft), 12.8 km to the E — 932 m above the town.
Changdae-san, peak at 685 m (2,247 ft), 15.7 km to the E — 672 m above the town.
Song-san, peak at 568 m (1,864 ft), 22.3 km to the NW — 555 m above the town.
Hak-kogae, pass at 312 m (1,024 ft), 17.6 km to the E.

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

Where Pyŏksŏng is

Latitude 38.05, longitude 125.56. 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 Pyŏksŏng'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 12 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.