Elevation of Tongola, Eastern, Sierra Leone

Tongola, Eastern, Sierra Leone is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Tongola's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 23 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Tongole.

Ground within 5 km

9 m – 36 m

Mean 21 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 27 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 37

among the towns of Eastern, and 89th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the NE, at 49 m, 39 m higher.

Cross-section through Tongola

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 Tongola; the vertical scale is the same on both.

55-6WE28.6 km
West to east: from 10 m at 14 km west to 38 m at 14 km east.
55-6NS28.6 km
North to south: from 30 m at 14 km north to 5 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tongola, 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 Tongola

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gandorhun (Southern) 8.6 kmNE 49 m (161 ft) +39 m
Pujehun (Southern) 22.8 kmSE 24 m (79 ft) +14 m
Sumbuya (Southern) 23.9 kmN 21 m (69 ft) +11 m
Masabendu (Southern) 27.1 kmS 4 m (13 ft) −6 m
Gbeworbu (Southern) 34.2 kmE 78 m (256 ft) +68 m

Where Tongola is

Latitude 7.45, longitude -11.9. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tongola elevation: 10 m (33 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Tongola'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 23 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.