Elevation of Kafanchan, Kaduna, Nigeria

Kafanchan, Kaduna, Nigeria is 730 m (2,395 ft) above sea level.

Kafanchan's height from sea level is 730 metres, or 2,395 feet. GeoNames reads 733 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 739 m.

Also written: Kafachan.

Ground within 5 km

667 m – 784 m

Mean 739 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 117 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 29

among the towns of Kaduna, and 20th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

11.8 km to the E, at 816 m, 86 m higher.

Cross-section through Kafanchan

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 Kafanchan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,232668WE28.6 km
West to east: from 754 m at 14 km west to 1,193 m at 14 km east.
1,232668NS28.6 km
North to south: from 790 m at 14 km north to 763 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kafanchan, 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 Kafanchan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kagoro 11.8 kmE 816 m (2,677 ft) +86 m
Zonkwa 23 kmN 854 m (2,802 ft) +124 m
Katab 30.3 kmNE 787 m (2,582 ft) +57 m
Bahagu (Plateau) 39 kmSE 529 m (1,736 ft) −201 m

Where Kafanchan is

Latitude 9.5832029, longitude 8.290661. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kafanchan elevation: 730 m (2,395 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 Kafanchan'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 733 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.