Elevation of al-'Urqūb, al-Jabal al-Garbī, Libya

al-'Urqūb, al-Jabal al-Garbī, Libya is 545 m (1,788 ft) above sea level.

al-'Urqūb's height from sea level is 545 metres, or 1,788 feet. GeoNames reads 665 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: العرقوب.

Ground within 5 km

287 m – 714 m

Mean 520 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 427 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 32

among the towns of al-Jabal al-Garbī, and 38th of 183 in Libya.

Nearest town

az-Zintān

2.4 km to the SE, at 677 m, 132 m higher.

Cross-section through al-'Urqūb

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-'Urqūb; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 694 m at 13 km west to 681 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 184 m at 13 km north to 628 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around al-'Urqūb, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 al-'Urqūb

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
az-Zintān	2.4 km	SE	677 m (2,221 ft)	+132 m
Awlād H̱alīfah	3.1 km	E	633 m (2,077 ft)	+88 m
Awlād Masaūd	8.5 km	W	663 m (2,175 ft)	+118 m
Tamūrī	9 km	S	647 m (2,123 ft)	+102 m
Taradīyah	10.6 km	W	674 m (2,211 ft)	+129 m

Where al-'Urqūb is

Latitude 31.95, longitude 12.216667. 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 al-'Urqūb'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 665 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.