Elevation of Điện Biên, Tây Bắc Bộ, Vietnam

Điện Biên, Tây Bắc Bộ, Vietnam is 479 m (1,572 ft) above sea level.

Điện Biên's height from sea level is 479 metres, or 1,572 feet.

Also written: Dien Bien Lai Chau.

Ground within 5 km

472 m – 724 m

Mean 519 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 252 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Tây Bắc Bộ, and 5th of 68 in Vietnam.

Cross-section through Điện Biên

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Điện Biên; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 896 m at 14 km west to 1,092 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 704 m at 14 km north to 687 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Điện Biên, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 58 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.

Peaks and passes near Điện Biên

Nam Ouap, peak at 1,354 m (4,442 ft), 12.9 km to the NW — 875 m above the town.
Nam Oun, peak at 1,345 m (4,413 ft), 10.9 km to the W — 866 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Điện Biên is

Latitude 21.37, longitude 103.01. 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 Điện Biên'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.