Elevation of Mbasa, Morogoro, Tanzania

Mbasa, Morogoro, Tanzania is 264 m (866 ft) above sea level.

Mbasa's height from sea level is 264 metres, or 866 feet. GeoNames reads 263 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

258 m – 273 m

Mean 265 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 15 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 30

among the towns of Morogoro, and 438th of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

22.3 km to the NE, at 281 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Mbasa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mbasa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

299239WE28.6 km
West to east: from 281 m at 14 km west to 255 m at 14 km east.
299239NS28.6 km
North to south: from 283 m at 14 km north to 260 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mbasa, 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 Mbasa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mbingu 22.3 kmNE 281 m (922 ft) +17 m
Chita 31 kmSW 307 m (1,007 ft) +43 m

Where Mbasa is

Latitude -8.38, longitude 36.18. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mbasa elevation: 264 m (866 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 Mbasa'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 263 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.