Elevation of Minna, Niger, Nigeria

Minna, Niger, Nigeria is 255 m (837 ft) above sea level.

Minna's height from sea level is 255 metres, or 837 feet. GeoNames reads 243 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 331 m.

Ground within 5 km

206 m – 348 m

Mean 257 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 142 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 29

among the towns of Niger, and 590th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

8.1 km to the S, at 213 m, 42 m lower.

Cross-section through Minna

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 Minna; the vertical scale is the same on both.

390194WE28.6 km
West to east: from 293 m at 14 km west to 279 m at 14 km east.
390194NS28.6 km
North to south: from 312 m at 14 km north to 227 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Minna, 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 Minna

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chanchaga 8.1 kmS 213 m (699 ft) −42 m
Paiko 21.1 kmSE 305 m (1,001 ft) +50 m
Gwada 32.5 kmNE 408 m (1,339 ft) +153 m
Kuta 33.9 kmNE 322 m (1,056 ft) +67 m

Where Minna is

Latitude 9.6077619, longitude 6.553394. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Minna elevation: 255 m (837 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Minna'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 243 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.