Elevation of Şəmkir, Gəncə-Qazax, Azerbaijan

Şəmkir, Gəncə-Qazax, Azerbaijan is 458 m (1,503 ft) above sea level.

Şəmkir's height from sea level is 458 metres, or 1,503 feet. GeoNames reads 462 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 450 m.

Also written: Şämkir Sämkir Šamhor Shamkhor Šamkir Shamkir.

Ground within 5 km

289 m – 862 m

Mean 461 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 573 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 38

among the towns of Gəncə-Qazax, and 62nd of 230 in Azerbaijan.

Nearest town

Dəllər

4 km to the N, at 338 m, 120 m lower.

Cross-section through Şəmkir

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Şəmkir; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 591 m at 13 km west to 317 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 182 m at 13 km north to 860 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Şəmkir, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Şəmkir

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dəllər	4 km	N	338 m (1,109 ft)	−120 m
Çinarlı	10.1 km	SE	439 m (1,440 ft)	−19 m
Zəyəm	13.6 km	NW	372 m (1,220 ft)	−86 m
Kür	18.3 km	N	189 m (620 ft)	−269 m
Alabaşlı	19.8 km	E	274 m (899 ft)	−184 m

Peaks and passes near Şəmkir

Masxit Dağ, peak at 2,000 m (6,562 ft), 23.4 km to the SW — 1,542 m above the town.
Gora Khachiser, peak at 1,581 m (5,187 ft), 15.4 km to the SW — 1,123 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Şəmkir is

Latitude 40.8297222, longitude 46.0188889. 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 Şəmkir'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 462 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.