Elevation of Loum, Littoral, Cameroon

Loum, Littoral, Cameroon is 262 m (860 ft) above sea level.

Loum's height from sea level is 262 metres, or 860 feet. GeoNames reads 235 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 293 m.

Ground within 5 km

160 m – 809 m

Mean 336 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 649 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 20

among the towns of Littoral, and 219th of 255 in Cameroon.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the NW, at 486 m, 224 m higher.

Cross-section through Loum

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Loum; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,22325WE28.7 km
West to east: from 197 m at 14 km west to 258 m at 14 km east.
1,22325NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,083 m at 14 km north to 114 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Loum, 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 Loum

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tombel (Sudouest) 7.3 kmNW 486 m (1,594 ft) +224 m
Njombé-Penja 10.3 kmSW 161 m (528 ft) −101 m
Manjo 17.5 kmNE 553 m (1,814 ft) +291 m
Mbanga 29.9 kmSW 108 m (354 ft) −154 m
Nlonako 32.3 kmNE 1,625 m (5,331 ft) +1,363 m

Peaks and passes near Loum

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Loum is

Latitude 4.718, longitude 9.73. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Loum elevation: 262 m (860 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 Loum'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 235 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.