Elevation of Kitama, Mtwara, Tanzania

Kitama, Mtwara, Tanzania is 255 m (837 ft) above sea level.

Kitama's height from sea level is 255 metres, or 837 feet. GeoNames reads 262 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

226 m – 265 m

Mean 251 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 14

among the towns of Mtwara, and 440th of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

6.6 km to the NE, at 254 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Kitama

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kitama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

287180WE28.5 km
West to east: from 279 m at 14 km west to 209 m at 14 km east.
287180NS28.5 km
North to south: from 267 m at 14 km north to 188 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kitama, 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 Kitama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nanyamba 6.6 kmNE 254 m (833 ft) −1 m
Tandahimba 16.4 kmW 276 m (906 ft) +21 m
Namikupa 19 kmSW 292 m (958 ft) +37 m
Nanhyanga 28.4 kmW 350 m (1,148 ft) +95 m

Where Kitama is

Latitude -10.7464351, longitude 39.7729817. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kitama elevation: 255 m (837 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 Kitama'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 262 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.