Elevation of Matazu, Katsina, Nigeria

Matazu, Katsina, Nigeria is 538 m (1,765 ft) above sea level.

Matazu's height from sea level is 538 metres, or 1,765 feet. GeoNames reads 535 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

518 m – 569 m

Mean 539 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 35

among the towns of Katsina, and 112th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

12.3 km to the S, at 577 m, 39 m higher.

Cross-section through Matazu

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 Matazu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

592497WE28.4 km
West to east: from 525 m at 14 km west to 534 m at 14 km east.
592497NS28.4 km
North to south: from 508 m at 14 km north to 585 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Matazu, 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 Matazu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Musawa 12.3 kmS 577 m (1,893 ft) +39 m
Yankamaye 25.9 kmE 551 m (1,808 ft) +13 m
Dutsin Ma 31.3 kmNW 543 m (1,781 ft) +5 m
Dan Musa 37.6 kmW 489 m (1,604 ft) −49 m

Where Matazu is

Latitude 12.2378799, longitude 7.6753286. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Matazu elevation: 538 m (1,765 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 Matazu'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 535 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.