Elevation of Balkanabat, Balkan, Turkmenistan

Balkanabat, Balkan, Turkmenistan is 26 m (85 ft) above sea level.

Balkanabat's height from sea level is 26 metres, or 85 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 17 m.

Also written: Nebitdağ Nebit-Dag Nebit Dag Nefte-Dag.

Ground within 5 km

-12 m – 743 m

Mean 113 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 755 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 6

among the towns of Balkan, and 29th of 32 in Turkmenistan.

Nearest town

Khazar

23.5 km to the SW, at -26 m, 52 m lower.

Cross-section through Balkanabat

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Balkanabat; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from -11 m at 13 km west to 353 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 393 m at 13 km north to -20 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Balkanabat, 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 Balkanabat

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Khazar	23.5 km	SW	-26 m (-85 ft)	−52 m
Gumdag	39.6 km	SE	5 m (16 ft)	−21 m

Where Balkanabat is

Latitude 39.5166667, longitude 54.3666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Balkanabat'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 11 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.