Elevation of Jigawa, Yobe, Nigeria

Jigawa, Yobe, Nigeria is 453 m (1,486 ft) above sea level.

Jigawa's height from sea level is 453 metres, or 1,486 feet. GeoNames reads 442 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Jigawa Kuka.

Ground within 5 km

338 m – 521 m

Mean 447 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 183 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 41

among the towns of Yobe, and 207th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

17.9 km to the NE, at 364 m, 89 m lower.

Cross-section through Jigawa

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 Jigawa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

527261WE28.5 km
West to east: from 430 m at 14 km west to 347 m at 14 km east.
527261NS28.5 km
North to south: from 409 m at 14 km north to 338 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Jigawa, 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 Jigawa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Garin Jangam 17.9 kmNE 364 m (1,194 ft) −89 m
Nafada (Gombe) 25.5 kmE 270 m (886 ft) −183 m
Fika 26.5 kmNE 415 m (1,362 ft) −38 m
Ngalda 29.4 kmE 266 m (873 ft) −187 m
Lanzai (Bauchi) 38.3 kmNW 430 m (1,411 ft) −23 m

Where Jigawa is

Latitude 11.16, longitude 11.11. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Jigawa elevation: 453 m (1,486 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 Jigawa'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 442 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.