Elevation of Hwange, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe

Hwange, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe is 778 m (2,552 ft) above sea level.

Hwange's height from sea level is 778 metres, or 2,552 feet. GeoNames reads 767 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 767 m.

Also written: Wankie.

Ground within 5 km

705 m – 1,011 m

Mean 801 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 306 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 8

among the towns of Matabeleland North, and 80th of 91 in Zimbabwe.

Cross-section through Hwange

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hwange; the vertical scale is the same on both.

953626WE28 km
West to east: from 724 m at 14 km west to 771 m at 14 km east.
953626NS28 km
North to south: from 676 m at 14 km north to 824 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Hwange, 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 Hwange is

Latitude -18.368719, longitude 26.501539. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hwange elevation: 778 m (2,552 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 Hwange'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 767 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.