Elevation of Rize, Turkey

Rize, Turkey is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Rize's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 63 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 6 m.

Also written: Rizini Rizous.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 572 m

Mean 135 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 572 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 6

among the towns of Rize, and 762nd of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

8.7 km to the NE, at 69 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Rize

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rize; the vertical scale is the same on both.

983-73WE25.2 km
West to east: from 144 m at 13 km west to 404 m at 13 km east.
983-73NS25.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 885 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Rize, 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 Rize

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gündoğdu 8.7 kmNE 69 m (226 ft) +16 m
Ilıca (Erzurum) 18.7 kmS 794 m (2,605 ft) +741 m
Çayeli 19.5 kmNE 103 m (338 ft) +50 m
Of (Trabzon) 22.9 kmW 25 m (82 ft) −28 m
Pazar 35.6 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) −19 m

Where Rize is

Latitude 41.02005, longitude 40.523449. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rize elevation: 53 m (174 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 Rize'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 63 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.