Elevation of Derince, Kocaeli, Turkey

Derince, Kocaeli, Turkey is 60 m (197 ft) above sea level.

Derince's height from sea level is 60 metres, or 197 feet. GeoNames reads 42 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 20 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 460 m

Mean 113 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 460 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 31

among the towns of Kocaeli, and 746th of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

5.9 km to the SE, at 26 m, 34 m lower.

Cross-section through Derince

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Derince; the vertical scale is the same on both.

599-45WE25.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 5 m at 13 km east.
599-45NS25.3 km
North to south: from 281 m at 13 km north to 313 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Derince, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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 Derince

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gölcük 5.9 kmSE 26 m (85 ft) −34 m
Halıdere 6.9 kmSW 92 m (302 ft) +32 m
Değirmendere 8.3 kmSW 55 m (180 ft) −5 m
Hisareyn 9 kmSE 101 m (331 ft) +41 m
Yeniköy 9.4 kmSE 82 m (269 ft) +22 m

Where Derince is

Latitude 40.76, longitude 29.81. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Derince elevation: 60 m (197 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 Derince'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 42 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.