Elevation of Penza, Russia

Penza, Russia is 142 m (466 ft) above sea level.

Penza's height from sea level is 142 metres, or 466 feet. GeoNames reads 156 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 150 m.

Also written: Пенза.

Ground within 4 km

133 m – 254 m

Mean 154 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 121 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 7

among the towns of Penza, and 468th of 994 in Russia.

Cross-section through Penza

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Penza; the vertical scale is the same on both.

276124WE23 km
West to east: from 259 m at 12 km west to 185 m at 12 km east.
276124NS23 km
North to south: from 168 m at 12 km north to 173 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Penza, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 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.

Where Penza is

Latitude 53.2, longitude 45.0166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Penza elevation: 142 m (466 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 Penza'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 156 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.