Elevation of Arqā, aš-Šamal, Lebanon

Arqā, aš-Šamal, Lebanon is 207 m (679 ft) above sea level.

Arqā's height from sea level is 207 metres, or 679 feet. GeoNames reads 66 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: ارقا.

Ground within 5 km

18 m – 609 m

Mean 207 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 591 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 10

among the towns of aš-Šamal, and 53rd of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

H̨albā

2.4 km to the NE, at 133 m, 74 m lower.

Cross-section through Arqā

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Arqā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 591 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 27 m at 13 km north to 1,158 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Arqā, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Arqā

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
H̨albā	2.4 km	NE	133 m (436 ft)	−74 m
Nah̨r-al-Barad	9.4 km	W	13 m (43 ft)	−194 m
al-Qubayyāt	20.8 km	E	546 m (1,791 ft)	+339 m
Zgartā	21.2 km	SW	108 m (354 ft)	−99 m
Ţarābulus	23.4 km	SW	12 m (39 ft)	−195 m

Peaks and passes near Arqā

Harf Aïn el Baïda, peak at 2,839 m (9,314 ft), 23.9 km to the SE — 2,632 m above the town.
Mashraa el Barbris, peak at 2,811 m (9,222 ft), 24.1 km to the S — 2,604 m above the town.
Qornet el Bouâbé, peak at 2,806 m (9,206 ft), 25 km to the S — 2,599 m above the town.

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

Where Arqā is

Latitude 34.53, longitude 36.06. 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 Arqā'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 66 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.