Elevation of Ruse, Bulgaria

Ruse, Bulgaria is 42 m (138 ft) above sea level.

Ruse's height from sea level is 42 metres, or 138 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 45 m.

Also written: Roussé Ruščuk Rusçuk Русе.

Ground within 4 km

15 m – 155 m

Mean 51 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 140 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 38

among the towns of Ruse, and 939th of 998 in Bulgaria.

Nearest town

5.8 km to the N, at 21 m, 21 m lower.

Cross-section through Ruse

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ruse; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1566WE24.7 km
West to east: from 21 m at 12 km west to 107 m at 12 km east.
1566NS24.7 km
North to south: from 51 m at 12 km north to 68 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Ruse, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Ruse

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Giurgiu (Romania) 5.8 kmN 21 m (69 ft) −21 m
Basarbovo 8.4 kmS 44 m (144 ft) +2 m
Nikolovo 12.5 kmE 71 m (233 ft) +29 m
Chervena Voda 12.8 kmE 95 m (312 ft) +53 m
Marten 12.9 kmNE 23 m (75 ft) −19 m

Where Ruse is

Latitude 43.8495786, longitude 25.9552292. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ruse elevation: 42 m (138 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 Ruse'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 39 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.