Elevation of Ponyan, Kogi, Nigeria

Ponyan, Kogi, Nigeria is 390 m (1,280 ft) above sea level.

Ponyan's height from sea level is 390 metres, or 1,280 feet. GeoNames reads 407 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

365 m – 486 m

Mean 417 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 121 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 38

among the towns of Kogi, and 313th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

7.2 km to the SE, at 473 m, 83 m higher.

Cross-section through Ponyan

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 Ponyan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

506315WE28.6 km
West to east: from 485 m at 14 km west to 361 m at 14 km east.
506315NS28.6 km
North to south: from 332 m at 14 km north to 486 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ponyan, 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 Ponyan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ife 7.2 kmSE 473 m (1,552 ft) +83 m
Ode (Ekiti) 19 kmS 524 m (1,719 ft) +134 m
Iya 20.7 kmSE 494 m (1,621 ft) +104 m
Ekinrin 22 kmSE 508 m (1,667 ft) +118 m
Omuo (Ekiti) 24 kmS 540 m (1,772 ft) +150 m

Where Ponyan is

Latitude 7.966667, longitude 5.716667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ponyan elevation: 390 m (1,280 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 Ponyan'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 407 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.