Elevation of Sinjah, Sinnār, Sudan

Sinjah, Sinnār, Sudan is 433 m (1,421 ft) above sea level.

Sinjah's height from sea level is 433 metres, or 1,421 feet. GeoNames reads 441 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 439 m.

Also written: Singah Singa سنجة.

Ground within 5 km

429 m – 440 m

Mean 436 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 11 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 10

among the towns of Sinnār, and 45th of 102 in Sudan.

Nearest town

20 km to the N, at 433 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Sinjah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sinjah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

465404WE28.4 km
West to east: from 438 m at 14 km west to 438 m at 14 km east.
465404NS28.4 km
North to south: from 433 m at 14 km north to 439 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sinjah, 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 Sinjah

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
as-Sūkī 20 kmN 433 m (1,421 ft) same
ad-Dindar 24.1 kmE 439 m (1,440 ft) +6 m
Karkawj 26.3 kmS 435 m (1,427 ft) +2 m
Umm Šawkah 27.6 kmNW 428 m (1,404 ft) −5 m
Abū H̨ijār 32.9 kmS 436 m (1,430 ft) +3 m

Where Sinjah is

Latitude 13.1546216, longitude 33.9427462. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sinjah elevation: 433 m (1,421 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 Sinjah'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 441 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.