Elevation of Rakops, North East, Botswana

Rakops, North East, Botswana is 915 m (3,002 ft) above sea level.

Rakops's height from sea level is 915 metres, or 3,002 feet. GeoNames reads 915 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

913 m – 917 m

Mean 915 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 4 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 30

among the towns of North East, and 211th of 243 in Botswana.

Nearest town

0 km to the N, at 915 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Rakops

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 Rakops; the vertical scale is the same on both.

956896WE27.8 km
West to east: from 940 m at 14 km west to 914 m at 14 km east.
956896NS27.8 km
North to south: from 919 m at 14 km north to 914 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Rakops, 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.

Towns near Rakops

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tsienyane (Bobonong) 0 kmN 915 m (3,002 ft) same

Where Rakops is

Latitude -21.0369444, longitude 24.4091667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rakops elevation: 915 m (3,002 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 Rakops'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 915 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.