Elevation of Kailahun, Eastern, Sierra Leone

Kailahun, Eastern, Sierra Leone is 313 m (1,027 ft) above sea level.

Kailahun's height from sea level is 313 metres, or 1,027 feet. GeoNames reads 309 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 303 m.

Ground within 5 km

283 m – 391 m

Mean 318 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 108 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 37

among the towns of Eastern, and 21st of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

Nyandehun-Mendegelema

12.5 km to the SE, at 335 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through Kailahun

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 Kailahun; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 197 m at 14 km west to 371 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 336 m at 14 km north to 323 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kailahun, 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 Kailahun

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Nyandehun-Mendegelema	12.5 km	SE	335 m (1,099 ft)	+22 m
Tomboru	16.5 km	S	261 m (856 ft)	−52 m
Koindu	21.3 km	NE	380 m (1,247 ft)	+67 m
Manowa	22.3 km	SW	200 m (656 ft)	−113 m
Buedu	22.3 km	E	377 m (1,237 ft)	+64 m

Where Kailahun is

Latitude 8.2772222, longitude -10.5738889. 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 Kailahun'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 309 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.