Elevation of Raka, Sokoto, Nigeria

Raka, Sokoto, Nigeria is 258 m (846 ft) above sea level.

Raka's height from sea level is 258 metres, or 846 feet.

Ground within 5 km

255 m – 289 m

Mean 265 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 34 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 34

among the towns of Sokoto, and 585th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

Gwadabawa

14.1 km to the S, at 267 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Raka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Raka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 285 m at 14 km west to 288 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 297 m at 14 km north to 267 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Raka, 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 Raka

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gwadabawa	14.1 km	S	267 m (876 ft)	+9 m
Umbulula	27.4 km	NE	322 m (1,056 ft)	+64 m
Kware	30.8 km	S	272 m (892 ft)	+14 m
Wurno	31 km	SE	287 m (942 ft)	+29 m
Birni N'Konni (Niger)	32.7 km	N	271 m (889 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Raka

Garu Hill, hill at 344 m (1,129 ft), 19.5 km to the NE — 86 m above the town.
Choncha Hill, hill at 317 m (1,040 ft), 14.5 km to the SE — 59 m above the town.
Bangi Hill, hill at 312 m (1,024 ft), 22.2 km to the W — 54 m above the town.

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

Where Raka is

Latitude 13.49312, longitude 5.2378. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Raka'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.