Elevation of Bossangoa, Ouham, Central African Republic

Bossangoa, Ouham, Central African Republic is 451 m (1,480 ft) above sea level.

Bossangoa's height from sea level is 451 metres, or 1,480 feet. GeoNames reads 456 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 465 m.

Ground within 5 km

446 m – 507 m

Mean 473 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 61 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 4

among the towns of Ouham, and 29th of 43 in Central African Republic.

Cross-section through Bossangoa

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 Bossangoa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

552443WE28.7 km
West to east: from 522 m at 14 km west to 476 m at 14 km east.
552443NS28.7 km
North to south: from 497 m at 14 km north to 524 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bossangoa, 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.

Where Bossangoa is

Latitude 6.491239, longitude 17.45499. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bossangoa elevation: 451 m (1,480 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 Bossangoa'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 456 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.