Elevation of Phonhong, Viangchan Province, Laos

Phonhong, Viangchan Province, Laos is 178 m (584 ft) above sea level.

Phonhong's height from sea level is 178 metres, or 584 feet. GeoNames reads 184 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Phonehong Muang Phon-Hong.

Ground within 5 km

173 m – 248 m

Mean 192 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 75 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 18

among the towns of Laos with a reading.

Cross-section through Phonhong

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Phonhong; the vertical scale is the same on both.

713135WE28 km
West to east: from 232 m at 14 km west to 270 m at 14 km east.
713135NS28 km
North to south: from 214 m at 14 km north to 191 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Phonhong, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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.

Where Phonhong is

Latitude 18.5054233, longitude 102.4179988. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Phonhong elevation: 178 m (584 ft) above sea level

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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 Phonhong'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 184 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.