Elevation of Shinkafe, Zamfara, Nigeria

Shinkafe, Zamfara, Nigeria is 328 m (1,076 ft) above sea level.

Shinkafe's height from sea level is 328 metres, or 1,076 feet. GeoNames reads 329 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Shinkafi.

Ground within 5 km

323 m – 335 m

Mean 328 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 12 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 41

among the towns of Zamfara, and 462nd of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

8.5 km to the W, at 328 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Shinkafe

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 Shinkafe; the vertical scale is the same on both.

404313WE28.4 km
West to east: from 339 m at 14 km west to 390 m at 14 km east.
404313NS28.4 km
North to south: from 345 m at 14 km north to 383 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Shinkafe, 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 Shinkafe

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Katuru (Sokoto) 8.5 kmW 328 m (1,076 ft) same
Jangero 9.9 kmS 335 m (1,099 ft) +7 m
Moriki 22.3 kmS 356 m (1,168 ft) +28 m
Koya 25.9 kmS 356 m (1,168 ft) +28 m
Isa (Sokoto) 26.1 kmNW 322 m (1,056 ft) −6 m

Where Shinkafe is

Latitude 13.07107, longitude 6.512466. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Shinkafe elevation: 328 m (1,076 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 Shinkafe'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 329 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.