Elevation of Phongsaly, Laos

Phongsaly, Laos is 560 m (1,837 ft) above sea level.

Phongsaly's height from sea level is 560 metres, or 1,837 feet.

Also written: Phôngsali.

Ground within 5 km

498 m – 1,158 m

Mean 743 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 660 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 18

among the towns of Laos with a reading.

Cross-section through Phongsaly

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Phongsaly; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 937 m at 14 km west to 868 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,039 m at 14 km north to 1,099 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Phongsaly, 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 Phongsaly

Phou Taloungsan, peak at 1,742 m (5,715 ft), 21 km to the NW — 1,182 m above the town.
Phou Pha, peak at 1,625 m (5,331 ft), 10.8 km to the SW — 1,065 m above the town.
Phou Chaophou, peak at 1,593 m (5,226 ft), 17.3 km to the S — 1,033 m above the town.

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

Where Phongsaly is

Latitude 21.75, longitude 102.19. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Phongsaly'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.