Elevation of Mongu, Plateau, Nigeria

Mongu, Plateau, Nigeria is 1,129 m (3,704 ft) above sea level.

Mongu's height from sea level is 1,129 metres, or 3,704 feet. GeoNames reads 1,127 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Mongu Arna.

Ground within 5 km

1,085 m – 1,239 m

Mean 1,151 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 154 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 16

among the towns of Plateau, and 9th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

21.8 km to the W, at 1,290 m, 161 m higher.

Cross-section through Mongu

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 Mongu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,3051,040WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1,272 m at 14 km west to 1,082 m at 14 km east.
1,3051,040NS28.6 km
North to south: from 1,098 m at 14 km north to 1,284 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mongu, 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 Mongu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Barakin 21.8 kmW 1,290 m (4,232 ft) +161 m
Vodni 23.8 kmSE 1,209 m (3,967 ft) +80 m
Bokkos 27.2 kmSW 1,331 m (4,367 ft) +202 m
Bukuru 37.5 kmNW 1,265 m (4,150 ft) +136 m

Where Mongu is

Latitude 9.5220592, longitude 9.0972012. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mongu elevation: 1,129 m (3,704 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 Mongu'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 1,127 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.