Elevation of Kwangyang, Chollanam, Korea (South)

Kwangyang, Chollanam, Korea (South) is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Kwangyang's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 16 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Tongkwang Tonggwang.

Ground within 5 km

1 m – 441 m

Mean 109 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 440 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 5

among the towns of Chollanam, and 66th of 82 in Korea (South).

Nearest town

Sunchŏn

10.5 km to the W, at 17 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Kwangyang

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kwangyang; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 49 m at 13 km west to 2 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 564 m at 13 km north to 94 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Kwangyang, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Kwangyang

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sunchŏn	10.5 km	W	17 m (56 ft)	−2 m
Yŏsu	24 km	S	18 m (59 ft)	−1 m

Peaks and passes near Kwangyang

Baegunsan, peak at 1,218 m (3,996 ft), 15.3 km to the N — 1,199 m above the town.
Kumuo San, peak at 849 m (2,785 ft), 24.8 km to the E — 830 m above the town.
Geumjeonsan, peak at 668 m (2,192 ft), 23.3 km to the W — 649 m above the town.

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

Where Kwangyang is

Latitude 34.97, longitude 127.6. 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 Kwangyang'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 16 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.