Elevation of Samou, Gnagna, Burkina Faso

Samou, Gnagna, Burkina Faso is 266 m (873 ft) above sea level.

Samou's height from sea level is 266 metres, or 873 feet. GeoNames reads 250 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

259 m – 290 m

Mean 273 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 31 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 18

among the towns of Gnagna, and 531st of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

18.5 km to the NW, at 271 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Samou

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 Samou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

309249WE28.4 km
West to east: from 293 m at 14 km west to 290 m at 14 km east.
309249NS28.4 km
North to south: from 275 m at 14 km north to 278 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Samou, 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 Samou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mopiènga 18.5 kmNW 271 m (889 ft) +5 m
Souloungou 25.9 kmE 281 m (922 ft) +15 m
Dipienga 26 kmS 263 m (863 ft) −3 m
Bassieri (Komandjoari) 27.5 kmSE 275 m (902 ft) +9 m
Ouadangou 29.7 kmW 300 m (984 ft) +34 m

Where Samou is

Latitude 13.0069516, longitude 0.14117. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Samou elevation: 266 m (873 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 Samou'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 250 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.