Elevation of Biskintā, Jabal Lubnan, Lebanon

Biskintā, Jabal Lubnan, Lebanon is 1,275 m (4,183 ft) above sea level.

Biskintā's height from sea level is 1,275 metres, or 4,183 feet. GeoNames reads 1,229 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,300 m.

Also written: بسكنتا.

Ground within 5 km

879 m – 2,089 m

Mean 1,395 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 1,210 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 12

among the towns of Jabal Lubnan, and 5th of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

7 km to the NW, at 1,272 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Biskintā

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Biskintā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,639292WE26.3 km
West to east: from 475 m at 13 km west to 2,239 m at 13 km east.
2,639292NS26.3 km
North to south: from 1,235 m at 13 km north to 1,631 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Biskintā, 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 Biskintā

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Faytrūn 7 kmNW 1,272 m (4,173 ft) −3 m
an-Nabbūt 9.3 kmSW 1,073 m (3,520 ft) −202 m
Kafr 'Aşş 9.3 kmSW 1,073 m (3,520 ft) −202 m
Ta'labāyā (al-Biqa'a) 12.1 kmSE 1,213 m (3,980 ft) −62 m
Jūniyah 14.5 kmW 9 m (30 ft) −1,266 m

Peaks and passes near Biskintā

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

Where Biskintā is

Latitude 33.9440185, longitude 35.7865408. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Biskintā elevation: 1,275 m (4,183 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 Biskintā'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 1,229 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.