Elevation of Birao, Vakaga, Central African Republic

Birao, Vakaga, Central African Republic is 466 m (1,529 ft) above sea level.

Birao's height from sea level is 466 metres, or 1,529 feet. GeoNames reads 468 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 468 m.

Ground within 5 km

460 m – 507 m

Mean 472 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 43

among the towns of Central African Republic with a reading.

Cross-section through Birao

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 Birao; the vertical scale is the same on both.

527452WE28.5 km
West to east: from 521 m at 14 km west to 467 m at 14 km east.
527452NS28.5 km
North to south: from 497 m at 14 km north to 507 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Birao, 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 Birao is

Latitude 10.2933091, longitude 22.7822485. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Birao elevation: 466 m (1,529 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 Birao'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 468 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.