Elevation of Xam Nua, Houaphanh, Laos

Xam Nua, Houaphanh, Laos is 972 m (3,189 ft) above sea level.

Xam Nua's height from sea level is 972 metres, or 3,189 feet. GeoNames reads 957 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Sam Neua.

Ground within 5 km

960 m – 1,324 m

Mean 1,088 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 364 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 18

among the towns of Laos with a reading.

Cross-section through Xam Nua

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Xam Nua; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,375 m at 14 km west to 951 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,243 m at 14 km north to 1,191 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Xam Nua, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 58 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.

Peaks and passes near Xam Nua

Phou Pan-Gnai, peak at 2,079 m (6,821 ft), 24.5 km to the S — 1,107 m above the town.
Phou Chiknou, peak at 1,888 m (6,194 ft), 19.1 km to the W — 916 m above the town.
Phou Gnotsim, peak at 1,836 m (6,024 ft), 15.5 km to the W — 864 m above the town.

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

Where Xam Nua is

Latitude 20.415, longitude 104.046. 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 Xam Nua'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 957 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.