Elevation of Niassan, Sourou, Burkina Faso

Niassan, Sourou, Burkina Faso is 257 m (843 ft) above sea level.

Niassan's height from sea level is 257 metres, or 843 feet. GeoNames reads 263 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

251 m – 258 m

Mean 255 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 7 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 16

among the towns of Sourou, and 552nd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

2.2 km to the S, at 256 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Niassan

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 Niassan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

291231WE28.4 km
West to east: from 260 m at 14 km west to 263 m at 14 km east.
291231NS28.4 km
North to south: from 253 m at 14 km north to 257 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Niassan, 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 Niassan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Débé 2.2 kmS 256 m (840 ft) −1 m
Di 7.6 kmN 257 m (843 ft) same
Kouy 29.5 kmE 267 m (876 ft) +10 m
Sono (Kossi) 30.5 kmS 257 m (843 ft) same
Tougan 39.5 kmE 305 m (1,001 ft) +48 m

Where Niassan is

Latitude 13.1, longitude -3.43. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Niassan elevation: 257 m (843 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 Niassan'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 263 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.