Elevation of Mpaka, Lubombo, Swaziland

Mpaka, Lubombo, Swaziland is 325 m (1,066 ft) above sea level.

Mpaka's height from sea level is 325 metres, or 1,066 feet. GeoNames reads 322 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

266 m – 352 m

Mean 318 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 86 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 10

among the towns of Lubombo, and 19th of 28 in Swaziland.

Nearest town

17.4 km to the E, at 650 m, 325 m higher.

Cross-section through Mpaka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mpaka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

518232WE27.3 km
West to east: from 468 m at 14 km west to 498 m at 14 km east.
518232NS27.3 km
North to south: from 273 m at 14 km north to 252 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Mpaka, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Mpaka

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Siteki 17.4 kmE 650 m (2,133 ft) +325 m
Simunye 25.6 kmNE 259 m (850 ft) −66 m
Tabankulu 34.9 kmNE 211 m (692 ft) −114 m
Ngomane 36.1 kmNE 173 m (568 ft) −152 m
Vuvulane 38.8 kmN 268 m (879 ft) −57 m

Where Mpaka is

Latitude -26.412, longitude 31.78. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mpaka elevation: 325 m (1,066 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 Mpaka'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 322 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.