Elevation of Mesen, West Flanders, Belgium

Mesen, West Flanders, Belgium is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Mesen's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 64 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 37 m.

Also written: Messines.

Ground within 4 km

12 m – 71 m

Mean 33 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 59 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 64

among the towns of West Flanders, and 280th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the S, at 27 m, 26 m lower.

Cross-section through Mesen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mesen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

666WE23.5 km
West to east: from 47 m at 12 km west to 17 m at 12 km east.
666NS23.5 km
North to south: from 21 m at 12 km north to 18 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Mesen, 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 Mesen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Comines-Warneton (Hainaut) 3.1 kmS 27 m (89 ft) −26 m
Heuvelland 5.1 kmW 66 m (217 ft) +13 m
Comines (France) 7.7 kmE 16 m (52 ft) −37 m
Armentières (France) 8.1 kmS 16 m (52 ft) −37 m
Ieper 9.7 kmN 20 m (66 ft) −33 m

Where Mesen is

Latitude 50.764271, longitude 2.896138. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mesen elevation: 53 m (174 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 Mesen'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 64 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.