Elevation of Çermik, Diyarbakır, Turkey

Çermik, Diyarbakır, Turkey is 724 m (2,375 ft) above sea level.

Çermik's height from sea level is 724 metres, or 2,375 feet. GeoNames reads 690 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 688 m to 700 m.

Also written: Çêrmûg.

Ground within 5 km

649 m – 1,283 m

Mean 846 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 634 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 16

among the towns of Diyarbakır, and 360th of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

31.1 km to the NE, at 948 m, 224 m higher.

Cross-section through Çermik

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Çermik; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,385609WE25.7 km
West to east: from 1,239 m at 13 km west to 869 m at 13 km east.
1,385609NS25.7 km
North to south: from 1,331 m at 13 km north to 783 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Çermik, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 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 Çermik

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ergani 31.1 kmNE 948 m (3,110 ft) +224 m
Maden (Elazığ) 33.9 kmNE 1,083 m (3,553 ft) +359 m

Where Çermik is

Latitude 38.1372222, longitude 39.4511111. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Çermik elevation: 724 m (2,375 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 Çermik'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 690 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.