Elevation of Lóngtán, Táoyuán, Taiwan

Lóngtán, Táoyuán, Taiwan is 228 m (748 ft) above sea level.

Lóngtán's height from sea level is 228 metres, or 748 feet. GeoNames reads 238 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 253 m.

Also written: Longtan Lungtan 龍潭.

Ground within 5 km

114 m – 370 m

Mean 226 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 256 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 13

among the towns of Táoyuán, and 55th of 291 in Taiwan.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the E, at 115 m, 113 m lower.

Cross-section through Lóngtán

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lóngtán; the vertical scale is the same on both.

51864WE27.4 km
West to east: from 261 m at 14 km west to 463 m at 14 km east.
51864NS27.4 km
North to south: from 96 m at 14 km north to 486 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Lóngtán, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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 Lóngtán

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dàxī 7.3 kmE 115 m (377 ft) −113 m
Guīshān 7.9 kmNW 193 m (633 ft) −35 m
Guānxī (Xīnzhú xiàn) 8.1 kmSW 215 m (705 ft) −13 m
Píngzhèn 8.6 kmN 146 m (479 ft) −82 m
Yángméi 8.7 kmNW 192 m (630 ft) −36 m

Where Lóngtán is

Latitude 24.8666667, longitude 121.2166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lóngtán elevation: 228 m (748 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 Lóngtán'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 238 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.