Elevation of Laascanood, Sool, Somalia

Laascanood, Sool, Somalia is 692 m (2,270 ft) above sea level.

Laascanood's height from sea level is 692 metres, or 2,270 feet. GeoNames reads 692 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Lasanod Laas'aanood Las Anod Laascaanood Las Caanood Lās'ānōd.

Ground within 5 km

633 m – 765 m

Mean 691 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 132 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 100

among the towns of Somalia with a reading.

Nearest town

Kalabaydh

30.3 km to the SW, at 746 m, 54 m higher.

Cross-section through Laascanood

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 Laascanood; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 771 m at 14 km west to 676 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 610 m at 14 km north to 943 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Laascanood, 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 Laascanood

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kalabaydh	30.3 km	SW	746 m (2,448 ft)	+54 m

Peaks and passes near Laascanood

Kabaal, peak at 1,048 m (3,438 ft), 18.3 km to the W — 356 m above the town.
Qotan, peak at 928 m (3,045 ft), 23.3 km to the SE — 236 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Laascanood is

Latitude 8.4755556, longitude 47.3583333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Laascanood'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 692 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.