Elevation of Kongoussi, Bam, Burkina Faso

Kongoussi, Bam, Burkina Faso is 311 m (1,020 ft) above sea level.

Kongoussi's height from sea level is 311 metres, or 1,020 feet. GeoNames reads 330 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 330 m.

Ground within 5 km

302 m – 406 m

Mean 320 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 104 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 11

among the towns of Bam, and 228th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

14.9 km to the S, at 333 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through Kongoussi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kongoussi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

450292WE28.4 km
West to east: from 349 m at 14 km west to 325 m at 14 km east.
450292NS28.4 km
North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 332 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kongoussi, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Kongoussi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sabcé 14.9 kmS 333 m (1,093 ft) +22 m
Tikaré 21.8 kmW 351 m (1,152 ft) +40 m
Basnéré (Sanmatenga) 25.7 kmSE 318 m (1,043 ft) +7 m
Niangouéla 26.5 kmSW 314 m (1,030 ft) +3 m
Guibaré 26.9 kmS 308 m (1,010 ft) −3 m

Peaks and passes near Kongoussi

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

Where Kongoussi is

Latitude 13.3333333, longitude -1.5333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kongoussi elevation: 311 m (1,020 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 Kongoussi'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 330 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.