Elevation of Mahembe, Kigoma, Tanzania

Mahembe, Kigoma, Tanzania is 1,012 m (3,320 ft) above sea level.

Mahembe's height from sea level is 1,012 metres, or 3,320 feet. GeoNames reads 1,028 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

869 m – 1,138 m

Mean 992 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 269 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 51

among the towns of Kigoma, and 336th of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the W, at 1,002 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Mahembe

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 Mahembe; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,489713WE28.7 km
West to east: from 767 m at 14 km west to 1,012 m at 14 km east.
1,489713NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,435 m at 14 km north to 780 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mahembe, 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 Mahembe

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bitale 4.1 kmW 1,002 m (3,287 ft) −10 m
Mwandiga 9.2 kmSW 848 m (2,782 ft) −164 m
Simbo 12.9 kmS 791 m (2,595 ft) −221 m
Kalinzi 15.6 kmN 1,554 m (5,098 ft) +542 m
Kasuku 15.7 kmS 792 m (2,598 ft) −220 m

Where Mahembe is

Latitude -4.77, longitude 29.72. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mahembe elevation: 1,012 m (3,320 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 Mahembe'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 1,028 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.