Elevation of Pujehun, Southern, Sierra Leone

Pujehun, Southern, Sierra Leone is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.

Pujehun's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 26 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

10 m – 47 m

Mean 28 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 37 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 25

among the towns of Southern, and 81st of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

20.5 km to the E, at 66 m, 42 m higher.

Cross-section through Pujehun

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 Pujehun; the vertical scale is the same on both.

644WE28.6 km
West to east: from 19 m at 14 km west to 51 m at 14 km east.
644NS28.6 km
North to south: from 60 m at 14 km north to 17 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pujehun, 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 Pujehun

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Foindu 20.5 kmE 66 m (217 ft) +42 m
Gandorhun 21.3 kmNW 49 m (161 ft) +25 m
Tongola (Eastern) 22.8 kmNW 10 m (33 ft) −14 m
Bomi 24.3 kmSE 36 m (118 ft) +12 m
Gbeworbu 25.5 kmNE 78 m (256 ft) +54 m

Where Pujehun is

Latitude 7.35, longitude -11.72. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Pujehun elevation: 24 m (79 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 Pujehun'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 26 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.