Elevation of El'sk, Homjel', Belarus

El'sk, Homjel', Belarus is 144 m (472 ft) above sea level.

El'sk's height from sea level is 144 metres, or 472 feet. GeoNames reads 126 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 142 m.

Also written: Yelsk Jel'sk Jelsk Elsk Ельск.

Ground within 4 km

130 m – 161 m

Mean 146 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 31 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 34

among the towns of Homjel', and 124th of 187 in Belarus.

Nearest town

24.1 km to the E, at 114 m, 30 m lower.

Cross-section through El'sk

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is El'sk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

172112WE23.3 km
West to east: from 154 m at 12 km west to 143 m at 12 km east.
172112NS23.3 km
North to south: from 152 m at 12 km north to 124 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around El'sk, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 El'sk

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Naroŭlja 24.1 kmE 114 m (374 ft) −30 m
Mazyr 26.8 kmN 123 m (404 ft) −21 m
Kalinkavičy 37.4 kmN 125 m (410 ft) −19 m

Where El'sk is

Latitude 51.8166667, longitude 29.15. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El'sk elevation: 144 m (472 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 El'sk'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 126 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.