Elevation of Tara, Sokoto, Nigeria

Tara, Sokoto, Nigeria is 310 m (1,017 ft) above sea level.

Tara's height from sea level is 310 metres, or 1,017 feet. GeoNames reads 307 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

305 m – 333 m

Mean 312 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 28 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 34

among the towns of Sokoto, and 490th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

5.2 km to the N, at 305 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Tara

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 Tara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

357297WE28.4 km
West to east: from 326 m at 14 km west to 351 m at 14 km east.
357297NS28.4 km
North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 313 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tara, 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 Tara

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kurawa 5.2 kmN 305 m (1,001 ft) −5 m
Sardauna 8.1 kmS 314 m (1,030 ft) +4 m
Magagindoke 11.4 kmN 308 m (1,010 ft) −2 m
Gidan Mainu 23.8 kmNW 298 m (978 ft) −12 m
Isa 26.9 kmS 322 m (1,056 ft) +12 m

Where Tara is

Latitude 13.47, longitude 6.36. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tara elevation: 310 m (1,017 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 Tara'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 307 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.