Elevation of Mada, Zamfara, Nigeria

Mada, Zamfara, Nigeria is 470 m (1,542 ft) above sea level.

Mada's height from sea level is 470 metres, or 1,542 feet. GeoNames reads 482 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

456 m – 531 m

Mean 487 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 75 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 41

among the towns of Zamfara, and 184th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

Dorka

11.7 km to the E, at 452 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Mada

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 Mada; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 485 m at 14 km west to 467 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 443 m at 14 km north to 555 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mada, 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 Mada

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dorka	11.7 km	E	452 m (1,483 ft)	−18 m
Kotorkoshi	13.3 km	W	485 m (1,591 ft)	+15 m
Chafe	20.3 km	S	569 m (1,867 ft)	+99 m
Gusau	29 km	W	452 m (1,483 ft)	−18 m
Mara Zamfarawa (Katsina)	36.5 km	E	491 m (1,611 ft)	+21 m

Peaks and passes near Mada

Kuruku Hill, hill at 822 m (2,697 ft), 21.4 km to the S — 352 m above the town.
Dutsen Wauni, hill at 627 m (2,057 ft), 9.3 km to the E — 157 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Mada is

Latitude 12.13163, longitude 6.939349. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Mada'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 482 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.