Elevation of Gusau, Zamfara, Nigeria

Gusau, Zamfara, Nigeria is 452 m (1,483 ft) above sea level.

Gusau's height from sea level is 452 metres, or 1,483 feet. GeoNames reads 451 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

423 m – 480 m

Mean 452 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 57 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 41

among the towns of Zamfara, and 208th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

15.8 km to the E, at 485 m, 33 m higher.

Cross-section through Gusau

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 Gusau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

489429WE28.4 km
West to east: from 451 m at 14 km west to 477 m at 14 km east.
489429NS28.4 km
North to south: from 456 m at 14 km north to 485 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gusau, 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 Gusau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kotorkoshi 15.8 kmE 485 m (1,591 ft) +33 m
Bungudu 17.4 kmNW 404 m (1,325 ft) −48 m
Nafuche 27.3 kmNW 434 m (1,424 ft) −18 m
Ruwan Doruwa 27.5 kmW 416 m (1,365 ft) −36 m
Mada 29 kmE 470 m (1,542 ft) +18 m

Where Gusau is

Latitude 12.1628466, longitude 6.6745042. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gusau elevation: 452 m (1,483 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 Gusau'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 451 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.