Elevation of Niou, Kourwéogo, Burkina Faso

Niou, Kourwéogo, Burkina Faso is 338 m (1,109 ft) above sea level.

Niou's height from sea level is 338 metres, or 1,109 feet. GeoNames reads 341 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

320 m – 371 m

Mean 340 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 10

among the towns of Kourwéogo, and 77th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

3.5 km to the N, at 336 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Niou

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 Niou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

395302WE28.4 km
West to east: from 331 m at 14 km west to 333 m at 14 km east.
395302NS28.4 km
North to south: from 314 m at 14 km north to 327 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Niou, 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 Niou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bokin (Passoré) 3.5 kmN 336 m (1,102 ft) −2 m
Napalgué 7.1 kmSE 344 m (1,129 ft) +6 m
Boussé 14.3 kmSE 340 m (1,115 ft) +2 m
Boulkon (Passoré) 19 kmN 319 m (1,047 ft) −19 m
Boulpon (Boulkiemdé) 19.4 kmSW 301 m (988 ft) −37 m

Where Niou is

Latitude 12.77, longitude -1.94. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Niou elevation: 338 m (1,109 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 Niou'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 341 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.