Elevation of Kanama, Yobe, Nigeria

Kanama, Yobe, Nigeria is 319 m (1,047 ft) above sea level.

Kanama's height from sea level is 319 metres, or 1,047 feet. GeoNames reads 324 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

314 m – 334 m

Mean 322 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 20 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

39th of 41

among the towns of Yobe, and 477th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

15.9 km to the NW, at 329 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Kanama

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 Kanama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

357296WE28.4 km
West to east: from 340 m at 14 km west to 318 m at 14 km east.
357296NS28.4 km
North to south: from 332 m at 14 km north to 330 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kanama, 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 Kanama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Maïné-Soroa (Niger) 15.9 kmNW 329 m (1,079 ft) +10 m
Geidam 29.5 kmSW 330 m (1,083 ft) +11 m

Where Kanama is

Latitude 13.087495, longitude 12.106329. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kanama elevation: 319 m (1,047 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 Kanama'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 324 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.