Elevation of Samam, Jigawa, Nigeria

Samam, Jigawa, Nigeria is 450 m (1,476 ft) above sea level.

Samam's height from sea level is 450 metres, or 1,476 feet. GeoNames reads 437 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Samamiya.

Ground within 5 km

425 m – 569 m

Mean 446 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 144 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 34

among the towns of Jigawa, and 213th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

23.2 km to the NW, at 451 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Samam

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 Samam; the vertical scale is the same on both.

472411WE28.5 km
West to east: from 440 m at 14 km west to 434 m at 14 km east.
472411NS28.5 km
North to south: from 421 m at 14 km north to 440 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Samam, 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 Samam

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Birnin Kudu 23.2 kmNW 451 m (1,480 ft) +1 m
Gwaram 26.2 kmE 439 m (1,440 ft) −11 m
Ningi (Bauchi) 32.7 kmS 488 m (1,601 ft) +38 m
Salmonde 33.4 kmE 445 m (1,460 ft) −5 m
Zigau (Bauchi) 34.5 kmE 412 m (1,352 ft) −38 m

Where Samam is

Latitude 11.3460734, longitude 9.6591939. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Samam elevation: 450 m (1,476 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 Samam'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 437 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.