Elevation of Pakxan, Bolikhamsay, Laos
Pakxan, Bolikhamsay, Laos is 157 m (515 ft) above sea level.
Pakxan's height from sea level is 157 metres, or 515 feet. GeoNames reads 156 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 153 m.
Also written: Paksane Paksan Muang Pakxan.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 158 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 23 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Pakxan
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pakxan; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Pakxan
- Phou Hôm, hill at 224 m (735 ft), 14.7 km to the E — 67 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Pakxan is
Latitude 18.3963889, longitude 103.6558333. 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 Pakxan'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 156 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.