Elevation of Amassama, Bayelsa, Nigeria

Amassama, Bayelsa, Nigeria is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Amassama's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Amassoma.

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 26 m

Mean 18 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 19 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

988th of 1,000

among the towns of Nigeria with a reading.

Nearest town

17.5 km to the E, at 10 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Amassama

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 Amassama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

47-13WE28.7 km
West to east: from 22 m at 14 km west to 22 m at 14 km east.
47-13NS28.7 km
North to south: from 19 m at 14 km north to 13 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Amassama, 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 Amassama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yenagoa 17.5 kmE 10 m (33 ft) +3 m
Patani (Delta) 30.6 kmN 22 m (72 ft) +15 m
Umu Nelu (Delta) 37.3 kmNW 13 m (43 ft) +6 m

Where Amassama is

Latitude 4.9730872, longitude 6.1089697. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Amassama elevation: 7 m (23 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 Amassama'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 11 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.