Elevation of Pyŏngyang, Korea (North)

Pyŏngyang, Korea (North) is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Pyŏngyang's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet.

Ground within 5 km

11 m – 47 m

Mean 25 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 36 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 5

among the towns of Pyŏngyang, and 94th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Chunghwa

12.3 km to the S, at 27 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Pyŏngyang

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 Pyŏngyang; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 17 m at 13 km west to 47 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 156 m at 13 km north to 42 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Pyŏngyang, 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 Pyŏngyang

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chunghwa	12.3 km	S	27 m (89 ft)	+7 m
Sŭngho	12.5 km	E	29 m (95 ft)	+9 m
Hŭkkyo (Hwanghaebukto)	18.1 km	S	37 m (121 ft)	+17 m
Kangsŏn (Pyŏngannamdo)	27.2 km	W	17 m (56 ft)	−3 m
Songnim (Hwanghaebukto)	29.5 km	SW	19 m (62 ft)	−1 m

Peaks and passes near Pyŏngyang

Koryŏng-san, peak at 542 m (1,778 ft), 20.7 km to the E — 522 m above the town.
Sambong-san, peak at 459 m (1,506 ft), 21.3 km to the E — 439 m above the town.
Tŏngmal-san, peak at 455 m (1,493 ft), 22.9 km to the E — 435 m above the town.

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

Where Pyŏngyang is

Latitude 38.9613433, longitude 125.8279959. 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 Pyŏngyang'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.