Elevation of Phnum Pénh, Cambodia

Phnum Pénh, Cambodia is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Phnum Pénh's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 11 m.

Also written: Phnom Penh.

Ground within 5 km

5 m – 20 m

Mean 12 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 15 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 25

among the towns of Cambodia with a reading.

Nearest town

11.9 km to the S, at 10 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Phnum Pénh

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Phnum Pénh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

42-18WE28.5 km
West to east: from 16 m at 14 km west to 5 m at 14 km east.
42-18NS28.5 km
North to south: from 9 m at 14 km north to 9 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Phnum Pénh, 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 Phnum Pénh

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ta Khmau (Kândal) 11.9 kmS 10 m (33 ft) −9 m

Where Phnum Pénh is

Latitude 11.558831, longitude 104.917445. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Phnum Pénh elevation: 19 m (62 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 Phnum Pénh'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 20 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.