Elevation of Oron, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria

Oron, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria is 39 m (128 ft) above sea level.

Oron's height from sea level is 39 metres, or 128 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 42 m

Mean 18 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 42 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 10

among the towns of Akwa Ibom, and 874th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

6.5 km to the S, at 38 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Oron

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 Oron; the vertical scale is the same on both.

51-9WE28.7 km
West to east: from 42 m at 14 km west to 11 m at 14 km east.
51-9NS28.7 km
North to south: from 12 m at 14 km north to 13 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Oron, 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 Oron

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Eyo Nsek 6.5 kmS 38 m (125 ft) −1 m
Calabar (Cross River) 18.6 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) −5 m
Kombo Abédimo (Cameroon) 35.3 kmSE 4 m (13 ft) −35 m
Kwa 39.5 kmSW 9 m (30 ft) −30 m
Eket 39.8 kmSW 25 m (82 ft) −14 m

Where Oron is

Latitude 4.807369, longitude 8.2377049. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Oron elevation: 39 m (128 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 Oron'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 20 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.