Elevation of Gerga, Sohag, Egypt

Gerga, Sohag, Egypt is 70 m (230 ft) above sea level.

Gerga's height from sea level is 70 metres, or 230 feet. GeoNames reads 78 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 70 m.

Also written: Jirjā Jirja جرجا.

Ground within 5 km

60 m – 379 m

Mean 91 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 319 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 12

among the towns of Sohag, and 34th of 207 in Egypt.

Nearest town

El Balyana

15 km to the SE, at 71 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Gerga

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gerga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 78 m at 14 km west to 80 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 167 m at 14 km north to 70 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Gerga, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 57 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 Gerga

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
El Balyana	15 km	SE	71 m (233 ft)	+1 m
Dar-as-Salām	18.3 km	E	68 m (223 ft)	−2 m
El Mansha	18.7 km	NW	66 m (217 ft)	−4 m
Akhmim	29.9 km	NW	72 m (236 ft)	+2 m
Abū Tišt (Qena)	30.5 km	SE	69 m (226 ft)	−1 m

Where Gerga is

Latitude 26.3275374, longitude 31.8933385. 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 Gerga'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 78 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.