Elevation of Bohicon, Zou, Benin

Bohicon, Zou, Benin is 158 m (518 ft) above sea level.

Bohicon's height from sea level is 158 metres, or 518 feet. GeoNames reads 166 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 143 m to 179 m.

Also written: Bohican.

Ground within 5 km

93 m – 219 m

Mean 158 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 126 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Zou, and 23rd of 37 in Benin.

Nearest town

8.8 km to the W, at 239 m, 81 m higher.

Cross-section through Bohicon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bohicon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

25757WE28.6 km
West to east: from 158 m at 14 km west to 75 m at 14 km east.
25757NS28.6 km
North to south: from 243 m at 14 km north to 71 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bohicon, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Bohicon

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Abomey 8.8 kmW 239 m (784 ft) +81 m
Cové 30.6 kmE 112 m (367 ft) −46 m

Where Bohicon is

Latitude 7.168871, longitude 2.067014. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bohicon elevation: 158 m (518 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 Bohicon'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 166 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.