Elevation of Foya, Lofa, Liberia

Foya, Lofa, Liberia is 403 m (1,322 ft) above sea level.

Foya's height from sea level is 403 metres, or 1,322 feet. GeoNames reads 419 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

385 m – 527 m

Mean 441 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 142 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 25

among the towns of Liberia with a reading.

Nearest town

10 km to the W, at 377 m, 26 m lower.

Cross-section through Foya

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Foya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

577357WE28.6 km
West to east: from 561 m at 14 km west to 502 m at 14 km east.
577357NS28.6 km
North to south: from 414 m at 14 km north to 456 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Foya, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Foya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Buedu (Sierra Leone) 10 kmW 377 m (1,237 ft) −26 m
Koindu (Sierra Leone) 18.1 kmNW 380 m (1,247 ft) −23 m
Nyandehun-Mendegelema (Sierra Leone) 25.8 kmW 335 m (1,099 ft) −68 m
Kailahun (Sierra Leone) 32.3 kmW 313 m (1,027 ft) −90 m
Guékédou (Guinea) 35.7 kmNE 461 m (1,512 ft) +58 m

Where Foya is

Latitude 8.28, longitude -10.28. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Foya elevation: 403 m (1,322 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 Foya'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 419 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.