Elevation of Farafangana, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

Farafangana, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Farafangana's height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 20 m

Mean 4 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 20 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 16

among the towns of Fianarantsoa, and 61st of 72 in Madagascar.

Cross-section through Farafangana

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Farafangana; the vertical scale is the same on both.

43-18WE27.6 km
West to east: from 20 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
43-18NS27.6 km
North to south: from 16 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Farafangana, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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.

Where Farafangana is

Latitude -22.82295, longitude 47.826401. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Farafangana elevation: 9 m (30 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 Farafangana'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 12 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.