Elevation of Umuahia, Abia, Nigeria

Umuahia, Abia, Nigeria is 133 m (436 ft) above sea level.

Umuahia's height from sea level is 133 metres, or 436 feet. GeoNames reads 148 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

88 m – 169 m

Mean 124 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 81 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 6

among the towns of Abia, and 760th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

10.8 km to the NE, at 99 m, 34 m lower.

Cross-section through Umuahia

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Umuahia; the vertical scale is the same on both.

17946WE28.7 km
West to east: from 135 m at 14 km west to 73 m at 14 km east.
17946NS28.7 km
North to south: from 124 m at 14 km north to 142 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Umuahia, 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 Umuahia

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Amaoji Lodu 10.8 kmNE 99 m (325 ft) −34 m
Bende 16.5 kmE 105 m (344 ft) −28 m
Ahaba (Imo) 22.4 kmN 135 m (443 ft) +2 m
Eziama (Imo) 26.3 kmSW 114 m (374 ft) −19 m
Umuduru (Imo) 31 kmNW 159 m (522 ft) +26 m

Where Umuahia is

Latitude 5.5333333, longitude 7.4833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Umuahia elevation: 133 m (436 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 Umuahia'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 148 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.