Elevation of Nièga, Namentenga, Burkina Faso

Nièga, Namentenga, Burkina Faso is 294 m (965 ft) above sea level.

Nièga's height from sea level is 294 metres, or 965 feet. GeoNames reads 291 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

280 m – 317 m

Mean 295 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 37 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 20

among the towns of Namentenga, and 369th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

10.5 km to the N, at 310 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Nièga

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 Nièga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

333272WE28.4 km
West to east: from 294 m at 14 km west to 278 m at 14 km east.
333272NS28.4 km
North to south: from 327 m at 14 km north to 297 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Nièga, 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 Nièga

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sini 10.5 kmN 310 m (1,017 ft) +16 m
Kobouré 11.3 kmN 314 m (1,030 ft) +20 m
Kode-Mende (Kouritenga) 12.2 kmSW 313 m (1,027 ft) +19 m
Boulsa 15.9 kmNW 315 m (1,033 ft) +21 m
Salogo (Ganzourgou) 16.4 kmSW 305 m (1,001 ft) +11 m

Where Nièga is

Latitude 12.53, longitude -0.5. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Nièga elevation: 294 m (965 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 Nièga'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 291 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.