Elevation of Bāozhōng, Yúnlín, Taiwan

Bāozhōng, Yúnlín, Taiwan is 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Bāozhōng's height from sea level is 11 metres, or 36 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Also written: Baozhong Baojhong Paochung 褒忠.

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 17 m

Mean 11 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 10 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 20

among the towns of Yúnlín, and 233rd of 291 in Taiwan.

Nearest town

4.8 km to the E, at 16 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Bāozhōng

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bāozhōng; the vertical scale is the same on both.

45-16WE27.5 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 28 m at 14 km east.
45-16NS27.5 km
North to south: from 7 m at 14 km north to 10 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Bāozhōng, 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 Bāozhōng

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tŭkù 4.8 kmE 16 m (52 ft) +5 m
Màiliáo 8.2 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) −2 m
Yuáncháng 8.3 kmS 13 m (43 ft) +2 m
Lúnbèi 9 kmN 13 m (43 ft) +2 m
Sìhú 10.8 kmSW 7 m (23 ft) −4 m

Where Bāozhōng is

Latitude 23.700761, longitude 120.310002. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bāozhōng elevation: 11 m (36 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 Bāozhōng'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 14 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.