Elevation of Erong, Benue, Nigeria

Erong, Benue, Nigeria is 326 m (1,070 ft) above sea level.

Erong's height from sea level is 326 metres, or 1,070 feet. GeoNames reads 356 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

189 m – 454 m

Mean 325 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 265 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 32

among the towns of Benue, and 467th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

4.6 km to the SE, at 310 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Erong

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Erong; the vertical scale is the same on both.

451157WE28.6 km
West to east: from 430 m at 14 km west to 199 m at 14 km east.
451157NS28.6 km
North to south: from 374 m at 14 km north to 246 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Erong, 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 Erong

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Obu 4.6 kmSE 310 m (1,017 ft) −16 m
Obokolo 10.9 kmE 192 m (630 ft) −134 m
Ankpa (Kogi) 25 kmN 345 m (1,132 ft) +19 m
Eke (Kogi) 25 kmW 279 m (915 ft) −47 m
Ichama 29.3 kmS 167 m (548 ft) −159 m

Where Erong is

Latitude 7.166667, longitude 7.7. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Erong elevation: 326 m (1,070 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 Erong'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 356 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.