Elevation of al-'Araqah, Janīn, Palestine
al-'Araqah, Janīn, Palestine is 285 m (935 ft) above sea level.
al-'Araqah's height from sea level is 285 metres, or 935 feet. GeoNames reads 288 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 288 m.
Also written: Al 'Araqa العرقة.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 277 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 376 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through al-'Araqah
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-'Araqah; 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 al-'Araqah
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| al-Hāšimiyah (Jordan) | 2.1 km | E | 388 m (1,273 ft) | +103 m |
| Kafr Qud | 3 km | SE | 318 m (1,043 ft) | +33 m |
| Kufayrit | 3.5 km | S | 257 m (843 ft) | −28 m |
| al-Yāmūn | 3.6 km | NE | 150 m (492 ft) | −135 m |
| Ya'bad | 4.1 km | SW | 333 m (1,093 ft) | +48 m |
Peaks and passes near al-'Araqah
- Giv‘at HaMore, hill at 515 m (1,690 ft), 21.4 km to the NE — 230 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where al-'Araqah is
Latitude 32.471413, longitude 35.199768. 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 al-'Araqah'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 288 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.