Elevation of Sowa, Botswana

Sowa, Botswana is 927 m (3,041 ft) above sea level.

Sowa's height from sea level is 927 metres, or 3,041 feet. GeoNames reads 929 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Sua.

Ground within 5 km

924 m – 929 m

Mean 927 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 5 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

206th of 243

among the towns of Botswana with a reading.

Nearest town

18 km to the S, at 915 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Sowa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sowa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

962902WE27.9 km
West to east: from 922 m at 14 km west to 934 m at 14 km east.
962902NS27.9 km
North to south: from 940 m at 14 km north to 921 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Sowa, 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 Sowa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nata (Tutume) 18 kmS 915 m (3,002 ft) −12 m
Maitengwe (Tutume) 25.3 kmE 937 m (3,074 ft) +10 m
Sepako (Tutume) 37 kmNE 941 m (3,087 ft) +14 m

Where Sowa is

Latitude -20.05, longitude 26.2. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sowa elevation: 927 m (3,041 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Sowa'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 929 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.