Elevation of Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria

Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria is 442 m (1,450 ft) above sea level.

Nsukka's height from sea level is 442 metres, or 1,450 feet. GeoNames reads 423 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 552 m.

Ground within 5 km

310 m – 529 m

Mean 432 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 219 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 9

among the towns of Enugu, and 224th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the N, at 349 m, 93 m lower.

Cross-section through Nsukka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Nsukka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

516251WE28.7 km
West to east: from 326 m at 14 km west to 311 m at 14 km east.
516251NS28.7 km
North to south: from 321 m at 14 km north to 448 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Nsukka, 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 Nsukka

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ibegwa Aka 7.3 kmN 349 m (1,145 ft) −93 m
Obolo 14.3 kmE 319 m (1,047 ft) −123 m
Adoru (Kogi) 29.8 kmNW 78 m (256 ft) −364 m
Eke (Kogi) 34.7 kmN 279 m (915 ft) −163 m

Peaks and passes near Nsukka

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

Where Nsukka is

Latitude 6.8566667, longitude 7.3958333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Nsukka elevation: 442 m (1,450 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 Nsukka'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 423 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.