Elevation of Ngiehun, Eastern, Sierra Leone

Ngiehun, Eastern, Sierra Leone is 437 m (1,434 ft) above sea level.

Ngiehun's height from sea level is 437 metres, or 1,434 feet. GeoNames reads 405 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

370 m – 502 m

Mean 427 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 132 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 37

among the towns of Eastern, and 4th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

5.7 km to the N, at 395 m, 42 m lower.

Cross-section through Ngiehun

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 Ngiehun; the vertical scale is the same on both.

744348WE28.6 km
West to east: from 705 m at 14 km west to 437 m at 14 km east.
744348NS28.6 km
North to south: from 383 m at 14 km north to 430 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ngiehun, 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 Ngiehun

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Motema 5.7 kmN 395 m (1,296 ft) −42 m
Simbakoro 6.9 kmN 409 m (1,342 ft) −28 m
Ndoyogbo 8.4 kmNW 374 m (1,227 ft) −63 m
Jaiama-Nimokoro 8.8 kmW 412 m (1,352 ft) −25 m
Nemeseidu 19.4 kmN 400 m (1,312 ft) −37 m

Where Ngiehun is

Latitude 8.55, longitude -11.02. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ngiehun elevation: 437 m (1,434 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 Ngiehun'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 405 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.