Elevation of Raga, Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan

Raga, Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan is 539 m (1,768 ft) above sea level.

Raga's height from sea level is 539 metres, or 1,768 feet. GeoNames reads 558 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 550 m.

Also written: Ragaa Raja.

Ground within 5 km

531 m – 596 m

Mean 558 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 65 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

51st of 113

among the towns of South Sudan with a reading.

Cross-section through Raga

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 Raga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

635525WE28.6 km
West to east: from 592 m at 14 km west to 573 m at 14 km east.
635525NS28.6 km
North to south: from 596 m at 14 km north to 627 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Raga, 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.

Where Raga is

Latitude 8.4666667, longitude 25.6833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Raga elevation: 539 m (1,768 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 Raga'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 558 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.