Elevation of Runka, Katsina, Nigeria

Runka, Katsina, Nigeria is 496 m (1,627 ft) above sea level.

Runka's height from sea level is 496 metres, or 1,627 feet. GeoNames reads 489 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

463 m – 561 m

Mean 498 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 35

among the towns of Katsina, and 150th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

Dutsin Ma

20 km to the E, at 543 m, 47 m higher.

Cross-section through Runka

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 Runka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 487 m at 14 km west to 533 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 503 m at 14 km north to 465 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Runka, 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 Runka

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dutsin Ma	20 km	E	543 m (1,781 ft)	+47 m
Dan Musa	21.6 km	S	489 m (1,604 ft)	−7 m
Mara Zamfarawa	25.3 km	S	491 m (1,611 ft)	−5 m
Kurfi	30.5 km	NE	535 m (1,755 ft)	+39 m
Batsari	34.1 km	N	472 m (1,549 ft)	−24 m

Peaks and passes near Runka

Runka Hill, hill at 637 m (2,090 ft), 1.5 km to the N — 141 m above the town.
Dutsin Barwa, hill at 594 m (1,949 ft), 8.1 km to the SE — 98 m above the town.

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

Where Runka is

Latitude 12.4525749, longitude 7.3071075. 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 Runka'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 489 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.