Elevation of Tomboru, Eastern, Sierra Leone

Tomboru, Eastern, Sierra Leone is 261 m (856 ft) above sea level.

Tomboru's height from sea level is 261 metres, or 856 feet. GeoNames reads 275 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Tombodu Tumbodu.

Ground within 5 km

198 m – 342 m

Mean 257 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 144 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 37

among the towns of Eastern, and 26th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

9.3 km to the SW, at 200 m, 61 m lower.

Cross-section through Tomboru

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 Tomboru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

389186WE28.6 km
West to east: from 202 m at 14 km west to 286 m at 14 km east.
389186NS28.6 km
North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 204 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tomboru, 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 Tomboru

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pendembu 9.3 kmSW 200 m (656 ft) −61 m
Nyandehun-Mendegelema 14.8 kmNE 335 m (1,099 ft) +74 m
Manowa 14.8 kmW 200 m (656 ft) −61 m
Kailahun 16.5 kmN 313 m (1,027 ft) +52 m
Mobai 21.7 kmSW 209 m (686 ft) −52 m

Where Tomboru is

Latitude 8.135433, longitude -10.618883. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tomboru elevation: 261 m (856 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 Tomboru'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 275 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.