Elevation of Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Lanzhou, Gansu, China is 1,762 m (5,781 ft) above sea level.

Lanzhou's height from sea level is 1,762 metres, or 5,781 feet.

Also written: Lanchow Kaolan.

Ground within 5 km

1,526 m – 2,242 m

Mean 1,748 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 716 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 14

among the towns of Gansu, and 24th of 908 in China.

Cross-section through Lanzhou

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lanzhou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,991 m at 13 km west to 1,574 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,735 m at 13 km north to 2,679 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Lanzhou, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Lanzhou is

Latitude 36.05, longitude 103.68. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Lanzhou'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.