Elevation of Sơn La, Tây Bắc Bộ, Vietnam

Sơn La, Tây Bắc Bộ, Vietnam is 614 m (2,014 ft) above sea level.

Sơn La's height from sea level is 614 metres, or 2,014 feet. GeoNames reads 608 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 608 m.

Also written: Son La.

Ground within 5 km

603 m – 865 m

Mean 719 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 262 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 3

among the towns of Tây Bắc Bộ, and 3rd of 68 in Vietnam.

Cross-section through Sơn La

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 Sơn La; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,159387WE27.8 km
West to east: from 870 m at 14 km west to 536 m at 14 km east.
1,159387NS27.8 km
North to south: from 441 m at 14 km north to 841 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Sơn La, 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.

Where Sơn La is

Latitude 21.3270341, longitude 103.9141288. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sơn La elevation: 614 m (2,014 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 Sơn La'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 608 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.