Elevation of Gandorhun, Southern, Sierra Leone

Gandorhun, Southern, Sierra Leone is 49 m (161 ft) above sea level.

Gandorhun's height from sea level is 49 metres, or 161 feet. GeoNames reads 33 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

15 m – 61 m

Mean 41 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 46 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 25

among the towns of Southern, and 69th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the SW, at 10 m, 39 m lower.

Cross-section through Gandorhun

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gandorhun; the vertical scale is the same on both.

666WE28.6 km
West to east: from 18 m at 14 km west to 49 m at 14 km east.
666NS28.6 km
North to south: from 59 m at 14 km north to 18 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gandorhun, 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 Gandorhun

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tongola (Eastern) 8.6 kmSW 10 m (33 ft) −39 m
Pujehun 21.3 kmSE 24 m (79 ft) −25 m
Sumbuya 22.1 kmNW 21 m (69 ft) −28 m
Gbeworbu 26.3 kmE 78 m (256 ft) +29 m
Koribondo 29.2 kmNE 80 m (262 ft) +31 m

Where Gandorhun is

Latitude 7.5, longitude -11.84. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gandorhun elevation: 49 m (161 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 Gandorhun'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 33 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.