Elevation of Sakwaya, Jigawa, Nigeria

Sakwaya, Jigawa, Nigeria is 442 m (1,450 ft) above sea level.

Sakwaya's height from sea level is 442 metres, or 1,450 feet. GeoNames reads 444 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

411 m – 458 m

Mean 437 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 34

among the towns of Jigawa, and 224th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

8.3 km to the SW, at 472 m, 30 m higher.

Cross-section through Sakwaya

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sakwaya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

464404WE28.5 km
West to east: from 439 m at 14 km west to 445 m at 14 km east.
464404NS28.5 km
North to south: from 407 m at 14 km north to 442 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sakwaya, 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 Sakwaya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tsangaya 8.3 kmSW 472 m (1,549 ft) +30 m
Albasu (Kano) 12.3 kmW 440 m (1,444 ft) −2 m
Dutse 13.4 kmE 442 m (1,450 ft) same
Durbunde (Kano) 16.1 kmS 464 m (1,522 ft) +22 m
Kachako (Kano) 16.6 kmS 452 m (1,483 ft) +10 m

Where Sakwaya is

Latitude 11.683333, longitude 9.25. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sakwaya elevation: 442 m (1,450 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 Sakwaya'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 444 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.