Elevation of Fowa, Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt

Fowa, Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Fowa's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Fuwah فوه.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 6 m

Mean 2 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 6 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 10

among the towns of Kafr el Sheikh, and 173rd of 207 in Egypt.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the SW, at 5 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Fowa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Fowa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

33-27WE26.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 2 m at 13 km east.
33-27NS26.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 1 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Fowa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 56 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 Fowa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Mahmoodia (Behera) 3.3 kmSW 5 m (16 ft) −1 m
Mootbas 10.3 kmN 5 m (16 ft) −1 m
Desuk 12.6 kmSE 10 m (33 ft) +4 m
El Rahmania (Behera) 14 kmSE 7 m (23 ft) +1 m
Damanhoor (Behera) 21.1 kmS 6 m (20 ft) same

Where Fowa is

Latitude 31.2035483, longitude 30.5502219. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Fowa elevation: 6 m (20 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 Fowa'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 9 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.