Elevation of Kitāb, Ibb, Yemen

Kitāb, Ibb, Yemen is 2,558 m (8,392 ft) above sea level.

Kitāb's height from sea level is 2,558 metres, or 8,392 feet. GeoNames reads 2,553 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: كتاب.

Ground within 5 km

2,172 m – 2,941 m

Mean 2,639 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 769 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 25

among the towns of Ibb, and 22nd of 366 in Yemen.

Nearest town

Đumrān

8.1 km to the N, at 2,596 m, 38 m higher.

Cross-section through Kitāb

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kitāb; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,582 m at 14 km west to 2,711 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,898 m at 14 km north to 3,027 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Kitāb, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Kitāb

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Đumrān	8.1 km	N	2,596 m (8,517 ft)	+38 m
Rih̨āb	13.1 km	W	1,521 m (4,990 ft)	−1,037 m
Yarīm	13.6 km	NE	2,629 m (8,625 ft)	+71 m
al-Wādī	14.1 km	NE	2,610 m (8,563 ft)	+52 m
as-Saddah	14.9 km	SE	2,236 m (7,336 ft)	−322 m

Peaks and passes near Kitāb

Jabal al Qullah, peak at 3,233 m (10,607 ft), 12.9 km to the N — 675 m above the town.
Jabal Shakhab ‘Ammār, peak at 3,218 m (10,558 ft), 21 km to the E — 660 m above the town.
Jabal ash Sha`r, peak at 3,079 m (10,102 ft), 13.3 km to the SE — 521 m above the town.

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

Where Kitāb is

Latitude 14.1976541, longitude 44.3070948. 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 Kitāb'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 2,553 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.