Elevation of Sarıkamış, Kars, Turkey

Sarıkamış, Kars, Turkey is 2,112 m (6,929 ft) above sea level.

Sarıkamış's height from sea level is 2,112 metres, or 6,929 feet. GeoNames reads 2,087 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2,100 m.

Also written: Sarikamis.

Ground within 5 km

2,072 m – 2,584 m

Mean 2,228 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 512 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 5

among the towns of Kars, and 4th of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

21.8 km to the NE, at 1,854 m, 258 m lower.

Cross-section through Sarıkamış

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 Sarıkamış; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,6431,788WE25.3 km
West to east: from 2,494 m at 13 km west to 2,409 m at 13 km east.
2,6431,788NS25.3 km
North to south: from 2,015 m at 13 km north to 1,847 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Sarıkamış, 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 Sarıkamış

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Selim 21.8 kmNE 1,854 m (6,083 ft) −258 m

Where Sarıkamış is

Latitude 40.331921, longitude 42.595169. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sarıkamış elevation: 2,112 m (6,929 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 Sarıkamış'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 2,087 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.