Elevation of Marka, Shabeellaha Hoose, Somalia

Marka, Shabeellaha Hoose, Somalia is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Marka's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Merca.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 123 m

Mean 35 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 123 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 6

among the towns of Shabeellaha Hoose, and 87th of 100 in Somalia.

Nearest town

Qoryoley

28 km to the W, at 69 m, 63 m higher.

Cross-section through Marka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Marka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 67 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 73 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Marka, 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 Marka

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Qoryoley	28 km	W	69 m (226 ft)	+63 m
Awdheegle	30.4 km	N	76 m (249 ft)	+70 m

Peaks and passes near Marka

Wagac Hiiraale, hill at 140 m (459 ft), 21.5 km to the SW — 134 m above the town.
Aw Suufi, hill at 130 m (427 ft), 11.1 km to the NE — 124 m above the town.
Gobyare, hill at 112 m (367 ft), 3.6 km to the NE — 106 m above the town.

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

Where Marka is

Latitude 1.7148333, longitude 44.77. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Marka'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 12 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.