Elevation of Bala, Mehedinţi, Romania

Bala, Mehedinţi, Romania is 285 m (935 ft) above sea level.

Bala's height from sea level is 285 metres, or 935 feet. GeoNames reads 232 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 245 m.

Also written: Balade Jos.

Ground within 4 km

208 m – 489 m

Mean 296 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 281 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 12

among the towns of Mehedinţi, and 362nd of 1,000 in Romania.

Nearest town

12.4 km to the N, at 299 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Bala

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

556184WE24.6 km
West to east: from 525 m at 12 km west to 324 m at 12 km east.
556184NS24.6 km
North to south: from 344 m at 12 km north to 242 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Bala, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Bala

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Baiă de Arama 12.4 kmN 299 m (981 ft) +14 m
Motru (Gorj) 14 kmSE 186 m (610 ft) −99 m
Padeş (Gorj) 15.3 kmN 296 m (971 ft) +11 m
Mătăsari (Gorj) 20 kmE 294 m (965 ft) +9 m
Tismana (Gorj) 20.7 kmNE 223 m (732 ft) −62 m

Where Bala is

Latitude 44.883333, longitude 22.833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bala elevation: 285 m (935 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 Bala'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 232 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.