Elevation of Linfen, Shanxi, China

Linfen, Shanxi, China is 453 m (1,486 ft) above sea level.

Linfen's height from sea level is 453 metres, or 1,486 feet. GeoNames reads 451 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 452 m.

Also written: Yaodu.

Ground within 5 km

425 m – 470 m

Mean 446 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 13

among the towns of Shanxi, and 146th of 908 in China.

Cross-section through Linfen

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

528417WE26 km
West to east: from 483 m at 13 km west to 520 m at 13 km east.
528417NS26 km
North to south: from 492 m at 13 km north to 486 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Linfen, 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 Linfen is

Latitude 36.088067, longitude 111.51888. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Linfen elevation: 453 m (1,486 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 Linfen'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 451 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.