Elevation of Birāk, Wādī aš-Šāţī, Libya

Birāk, Wādī aš-Šāţī, Libya is 347 m (1,138 ft) above sea level.

Birāk's height from sea level is 347 metres, or 1,138 feet. GeoNames reads 349 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 334 m.

Also written: aš-Šāţī براك.

Ground within 5 km

320 m – 416 m

Mean 358 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 96 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 9

among the towns of Wādī aš-Šāţī, and 79th of 183 in Libya.

Nearest town

6.1 km to the NW, at 377 m, 30 m higher.

Cross-section through Birāk

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Birāk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

463307WE27.1 km
West to east: from 374 m at 14 km west to 342 m at 14 km east.
463307NS27.1 km
North to south: from 452 m at 14 km north to 323 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Birāk, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Birāk

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tamzāwah 6.1 kmNW 377 m (1,237 ft) +30 m
Qurdah 25.3 kmW 322 m (1,056 ft) −25 m
al-Mah̨rūqah 29.5 kmW 330 m (1,083 ft) −17 m

Where Birāk is

Latitude 27.5458333, longitude 14.2686111. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Birāk elevation: 347 m (1,138 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 Birāk'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 349 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.