Elevation of Blama, Eastern, Sierra Leone

Blama, Eastern, Sierra Leone is 126 m (413 ft) above sea level.

Blama's height from sea level is 126 metres, or 413 feet. GeoNames reads 122 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 122 m.

Ground within 5 km

124 m – 226 m

Mean 140 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 102 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

36th of 37

among the towns of Eastern, and 46th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

16.7 km to the E, at 181 m, 55 m higher.

Cross-section through Blama

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 Blama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

37999WE28.6 km
West to east: from 121 m at 14 km west to 359 m at 14 km east.
37999NS28.6 km
North to south: from 131 m at 14 km north to 136 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Blama, 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 Blama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kenema 16.7 kmE 181 m (594 ft) +55 m
Baoma (Southern) 18.5 kmN 145 m (476 ft) +19 m
Hangha 22.5 kmE 169 m (554 ft) +43 m
Giehun 31.6 kmE 173 m (568 ft) +47 m
Boajibu 34.7 kmN 148 m (486 ft) +22 m

Where Blama is

Latitude 7.877027, longitude -11.33717. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Blama elevation: 126 m (413 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 Blama'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 122 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.