Elevation of Tarai, Kano, Nigeria
Tarai, Kano, Nigeria is 524 m (1,719 ft) above sea level.
Tarai's height from sea level is 524 metres, or 1,719 feet. GeoNames reads 519 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 515 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 100 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Tarai
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 Tarai; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Tarai
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kibiya | 3.5 km | NW | 497 m (1,631 ft) | −27 m |
| Rano | 11.8 km | NW | 520 m (1,706 ft) | −4 m |
| Burumburum | 13.9 km | SE | 599 m (1,965 ft) | +75 m |
| Barkun | 15.7 km | N | 457 m (1,499 ft) | −67 m |
| Kantudu | 17.9 km | SE | 582 m (1,909 ft) | +58 m |
Peaks and passes near Tarai
- Shike Hill, hill at 743 m (2,438 ft), 2.2 km to the W — 219 m above the town.
- Rurum Hill, hill at 628 m (2,060 ft), 23 km to the SW — 104 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Tarai is
Latitude 11.5, longitude 8.67. 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 Tarai'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 519 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.