Elevation of Sumbuya, Southern, Sierra Leone

Sumbuya, Southern, Sierra Leone is 21 m (69 ft) above sea level.

Sumbuya's height from sea level is 21 metres, or 69 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

18 m – 50 m

Mean 33 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 32 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 25

among the towns of Southern, and 83rd of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

17.8 km to the NW, at 56 m, 35 m higher.

Cross-section through Sumbuya

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 Sumbuya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1846WE28.6 km
West to east: from 39 m at 14 km west to 62 m at 14 km east.
1846NS28.6 km
North to south: from 51 m at 14 km north to 24 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sumbuya, 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 Sumbuya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Serabu 17.8 kmNW 56 m (184 ft) +35 m
Gandorhun 22.1 kmSE 49 m (161 ft) +28 m
Tongola (Eastern) 23.9 kmS 10 m (33 ft) −11 m
Mattru 23.9 kmW 16 m (52 ft) −5 m
Bumpeh 27.9 kmN 46 m (151 ft) +25 m

Where Sumbuya is

Latitude 7.6538679, longitude -11.967619. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sumbuya elevation: 21 m (69 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 Sumbuya'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 39 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.