Elevation of Mers El Kebir, Oran, Algeria

Mers El Kebir, Oran, Algeria is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Mers El Kebir's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Mars-al-Kabīr El Marsa el Kebir Mers el Kebir المرسى الكبير.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 486 m

Mean 131 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 486 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 20

among the towns of Oran, and 696th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

Ain Turk

4.1 km to the NW, at 32 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Mers El Kebir

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mers El Kebir; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 65 m at 13 km west to 168 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 86 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Mers El Kebir, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Mers El Kebir

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ain Turk	4.1 km	NW	32 m (105 ft)	+25 m
Oran	7.5 km	SE	116 m (381 ft)	+109 m
Bousfer	9.4 km	W	93 m (305 ft)	+86 m
Misserghin	12.3 km	S	130 m (427 ft)	+123 m
Bir El Djir	13.9 km	E	165 m (541 ft)	+158 m

Where Mers El Kebir is

Latitude 35.7249632, longitude -0.7081527. 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 Mers El Kebir'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 22 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.