Elevation of Gorom-Gorom, Oudalan, Burkina Faso

Gorom-Gorom, Oudalan, Burkina Faso is 278 m (912 ft) above sea level.

Gorom-Gorom's height from sea level is 278 metres, or 912 feet. GeoNames reads 274 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

268 m – 291 m

Mean 279 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 23 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 4

among the towns of Oudalan, and 466th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

13.6 km to the SE, at 269 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Gorom-Gorom

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gorom-Gorom; the vertical scale is the same on both.

313252WE28.3 km
West to east: from 286 m at 14 km west to 276 m at 14 km east.
313252NS28.3 km
North to south: from 290 m at 14 km north to 279 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Gorom-Gorom, 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 Gorom-Gorom

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saouga 13.6 kmSE 269 m (883 ft) −9 m

Peaks and passes near Gorom-Gorom

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Gorom-Gorom is

Latitude 14.45, longitude -0.233333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gorom-Gorom elevation: 278 m (912 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 Gorom-Gorom'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 274 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.