Elevation of Ra's Ba'labakk, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon

Ra's Ba'labakk, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon is 995 m (3,264 ft) above sea level.

Ra's Ba'labakk's height from sea level is 995 metres, or 3,264 feet. GeoNames reads 993 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,000 m.

Also written: رأس بعلبك.

Ground within 5 km

772 m – 1,534 m

Mean 1,043 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 762 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 26

among the towns of al-Biqa'a, and 16th of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

Amzīt

4.8 km to the SW, at 959 m, 36 m lower.

Cross-section through Ra's Ba'labakk

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 Ra's Ba'labakk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,101 m at 13 km west to 1,540 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 670 m at 13 km north to 1,782 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Ra's Ba'labakk, 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 Ra's Ba'labakk

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Amzīt	4.8 km	SW	959 m (3,146 ft)	−36 m
al-Fakyah	5.1 km	S	1,312 m (4,304 ft)	+317 m
Ārsāl	8.9 km	S	1,412 m (4,633 ft)	+417 m
al-Labwah	9.2 km	SW	924 m (3,031 ft)	−71 m
Nah̨r	10.1 km	NE	664 m (2,178 ft)	−331 m

Peaks and passes near Ra's Ba'labakk

Qornet el Qorraïs, peak at 2,765 m (9,072 ft), 24.8 km to the W — 1,770 m above the town.
Qornet ed Daghliyé, peak at 2,750 m (9,022 ft), 24.7 km to the W — 1,755 m above the town.
Qornet Hassan, peak at 2,526 m (8,287 ft), 23.8 km to the W — 1,531 m above the town.

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

Where Ra's Ba'labakk is

Latitude 34.2601333, longitude 36.418128. 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 Ra's Ba'labakk'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 993 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.