Elevation of Kwaga, Kigoma, Tanzania

Kwaga, Kigoma, Tanzania is 1,143 m (3,750 ft) above sea level.

Kwaga's height from sea level is 1,143 metres, or 3,750 feet. GeoNames reads 1,124 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,006 m – 1,435 m

Mean 1,132 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 429 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 51

among the towns of Kigoma, and 288th of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

4.4 km to the NE, at 1,210 m, 67 m higher.

Cross-section through Kwaga

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kwaga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,440854WE28.7 km
West to east: from 895 m at 14 km west to 1,116 m at 14 km east.
1,440854NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,399 m at 14 km north to 1,067 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kwaga, 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 Kwaga

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rusesa 4.4 kmNE 1,210 m (3,970 ft) +67 m
Kazuramimba 17.6 kmS 1,095 m (3,593 ft) −48 m
Kandaga 19.9 kmSW 997 m (3,271 ft) −146 m
Simbo 27.6 kmW 791 m (2,595 ft) −352 m
Kasuku 27.9 kmW 792 m (2,598 ft) −351 m

Peaks and passes near Kwaga

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Kwaga is

Latitude -4.8417305, longitude 29.9827252. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kwaga elevation: 1,143 m (3,750 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 Kwaga'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 1,124 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.