Elevation of Wŏnju, Kangwŏn, Korea (South)

Wŏnju, Kangwŏn, Korea (South) is 208 m (682 ft) above sea level.

Wŏnju's height from sea level is 208 metres, or 682 feet. GeoNames reads 133 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Weonju Genshū.

Ground within 5 km

108 m – 302 m

Mean 164 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 194 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 7

among the towns of Kangwŏn, and 4th of 82 in Korea (South).

Nearest town

Chechon

30.7 km to the SE, at 290 m, 82 m higher.

Cross-section through Wŏnju

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wŏnju; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 207 m at 13 km west to 780 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 183 m at 13 km north to 840 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Wŏnju, 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 Wŏnju

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chechon (Chungchŏngbuk)	30.7 km	SE	290 m (951 ft)	+82 m
Chungju (Chungchŏngbuk)	39.1 km	S	88 m (289 ft)	−120 m

Peaks and passes near Wŏnju

Ch’iak-san, peak at 1,288 m (4,226 ft), 12.2 km to the E — 1,080 m above the town.
Namdae-bong, peak at 1,180 m (3,871 ft), 12.2 km to the E — 972 m above the town.
Maebong-san, peak at 1,093 m (3,586 ft), 19.5 km to the E — 885 m above the town.
Ponghwa-jae, pass at 273 m (896 ft), 24.3 km to the N.

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

Where Wŏnju is

Latitude 37.3422186, longitude 127.9201621. 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 Wŏnju'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 133 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.