Elevation of Birniwa, Jigawa, Nigeria

Birniwa, Jigawa, Nigeria is 351 m (1,152 ft) above sea level.

Birniwa's height from sea level is 351 metres, or 1,152 feet. GeoNames reads 353 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

345 m – 353 m

Mean 350 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 8 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 34

among the towns of Jigawa, and 399th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

20.9 km to the W, at 352 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Birniwa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Birniwa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

380319WE28.4 km
West to east: from 352 m at 14 km west to 347 m at 14 km east.
380319NS28.4 km
North to south: from 348 m at 14 km north to 352 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Birniwa, 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 Birniwa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Barburam 20.9 kmW 352 m (1,155 ft) +1 m
Batu 22.3 kmW 352 m (1,155 ft) +1 m
Kwaga 25 kmW 351 m (1,152 ft) same
Nguru (Yobe) 26 kmNE 348 m (1,142 ft) −3 m
Diginsa 32.5 kmW 354 m (1,161 ft) +3 m

Where Birniwa is

Latitude 12.78679, longitude 10.23771. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Birniwa elevation: 351 m (1,152 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 Birniwa'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 353 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.