Elevation of Qafşah, Tunisia

Qafşah, Tunisia is 299 m (981 ft) above sea level.

Qafşah's height from sea level is 299 metres, or 981 feet. GeoNames reads 295 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 297 m.

Also written: Gafsa قفصة.

Ground within 5 km

248 m – 488 m

Mean 304 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 240 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 8

among the towns of Qafşah, and 54th of 247 in Tunisia.

Nearest town

3 km to the E, at 314 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Qafşah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Qafşah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

413175WE26.2 km
West to east: from 192 m at 13 km west to 377 m at 13 km east.
413175NS26.2 km
North to south: from 396 m at 13 km north to 271 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Qafşah, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Qafşah

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
al-Qaşr 3 kmE 314 m (1,030 ft) +15 m
al-Qaţār 3.4 kmSE 276 m (906 ft) −23 m
al-Mad̨īlah 21.2 kmS 413 m (1,355 ft) +114 m
al-Mitlawī 36.2 kmW 257 m (843 ft) −42 m

Where Qafşah is

Latitude 34.42165, longitude 8.786656. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Qafşah elevation: 299 m (981 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 Qafşah'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 295 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.