Elevation of Benisheikh, Yobe, Nigeria

Benisheikh, Yobe, Nigeria is 348 m (1,142 ft) above sea level.

Benisheikh's height from sea level is 348 metres, or 1,142 feet. GeoNames reads 351 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Beni Sheik Benisheik.

Ground within 5 km

345 m – 373 m

Mean 358 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 28 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 41

among the towns of Yobe, and 411th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

15.5 km to the E, at 342 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Benisheikh

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Benisheikh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

390329WE28.5 km
West to east: from 375 m at 14 km west to 359 m at 14 km east.
390329NS28.5 km
North to south: from 352 m at 14 km north to 376 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Benisheikh, 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 Benisheikh

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mainuk (Borno) 15.5 kmE 342 m (1,122 ft) −6 m
Ngamdu 26.1 kmW 365 m (1,198 ft) +17 m
Kesawa (Borno) 31.2 kmE 341 m (1,119 ft) −7 m

Where Benisheikh is

Latitude 11.80378, longitude 12.49035. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Benisheikh elevation: 348 m (1,142 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 Benisheikh'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 351 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.