Elevation of Namwala, Southern, Zambia

Namwala, Southern, Zambia is 996 m (3,268 ft) above sea level.

Namwala's height from sea level is 996 metres, or 3,268 feet. GeoNames reads 999 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 999 m.

Ground within 5 km

985 m – 1,034 m

Mean 998 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 12

among the towns of Southern, and 60th of 73 in Zambia.

Cross-section through Namwala

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Namwala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,043982WE28.2 km
West to east: from 989 m at 14 km west to 991 m at 14 km east.
1,043982NS28.2 km
North to south: from 1,010 m at 14 km north to 1,006 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Namwala, 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.

Where Namwala is

Latitude -15.7559391, longitude 26.4363556. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Namwala elevation: 996 m (3,268 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 Namwala'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 999 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.