Elevation of Ganta, Nimba, Liberia

Ganta, Nimba, Liberia is 418 m (1,371 ft) above sea level.

Ganta's height from sea level is 418 metres, or 1,371 feet. GeoNames reads 408 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Gompa Gahnpa.

Ground within 5 km

355 m – 469 m

Mean 421 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 114 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 5

among the towns of Nimba, and 4th of 25 in Liberia.

Nearest town

4.6 km to the SE, at 362 m, 56 m lower.

Cross-section through Ganta

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 Ganta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

483321WE28.6 km
West to east: from 471 m at 14 km west to 358 m at 14 km east.
483321NS28.6 km
North to south: from 458 m at 14 km north to 333 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ganta, 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 Ganta

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Karnplay 4.6 kmSE 362 m (1,188 ft) −56 m
Sanniquellie 20.6 kmW 433 m (1,421 ft) +15 m
Yekepa 31.1 kmN 514 m (1,686 ft) +96 m

Where Ganta is

Latitude 7.3, longitude -8.53. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ganta elevation: 418 m (1,371 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 Ganta'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 408 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.