Elevation of Sŏnchŏn, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North)

Sŏnchŏn, Pyŏnganbukto, Korea (North) is 99 m (325 ft) above sea level.

Sŏnchŏn's height from sea level is 99 metres, or 325 feet. GeoNames reads 48 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

9 m – 292 m

Mean 92 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 283 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 23

among the towns of Pyŏnganbukto, and 45th of 130 in Korea (North).

Nearest town

Kwaksan

18.4 km to the SE, at 25 m, 74 m lower.

Cross-section through Sŏnchŏn

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 Sŏnchŏn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 127 m at 13 km west to 122 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 131 m at 13 km north to 7 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Sŏnchŏn, 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 Sŏnchŏn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kwaksan	18.4 km	SE	25 m (82 ft)	−74 m
Chŏlsan	21.5 km	W	21 m (69 ft)	−78 m
Charyŏngwan	21.9 km	W	21 m (69 ft)	−78 m
Chŏngju	28.4 km	SE	10 m (33 ft)	−89 m
Yŏmju	29.5 km	W	27 m (89 ft)	−72 m

Peaks and passes near Sŏnchŏn

Munsu-san, peak at 741 m (2,431 ft), 22.4 km to the NW — 642 m above the town.
Kubong-san, peak at 720 m (2,362 ft), 23.4 km to the NE — 621 m above the town.
T’akki-san, peak at 682 m (2,238 ft), 20.5 km to the N — 583 m above the town.

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

Where Sŏnchŏn is

Latitude 39.79, longitude 124.92. 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 Sŏnchŏn'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 48 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.