Elevation of Tombo, Eastern, Sierra Leone

Tombo, Eastern, Sierra Leone is 367 m (1,204 ft) above sea level.

Tombo's height from sea level is 367 metres, or 1,204 feet. GeoNames reads 371 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Tombu.

Ground within 5 km

357 m – 844 m

Mean 438 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 487 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 37

among the towns of Eastern, and 16th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

16.6 km to the SW, at 263 m, 104 m lower.

Cross-section through Tombo

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 Tombo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

768242WE28.6 km
West to east: from 393 m at 14 km west to 292 m at 14 km east.
768242NS28.6 km
North to south: from 567 m at 14 km north to 337 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tombo, 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 Tombo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Koidu 16.6 kmSW 263 m (863 ft) −104 m
Simbakoro 31.7 kmW 409 m (1,342 ft) +42 m
Ngiehun 32 kmW 437 m (1,434 ft) +70 m
Kailahun 32.9 kmSE 313 m (1,027 ft) −54 m
Motema 33.9 kmW 395 m (1,296 ft) +28 m

Where Tombo is

Latitude 8.53, longitude -10.73. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tombo elevation: 367 m (1,204 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 Tombo'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 371 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.