Elevation of Fonko, Southern, Ethiopia

Fonko, Southern, Ethiopia is 2,203 m (7,228 ft) above sea level.

Fonko's height from sea level is 2,203 metres, or 7,228 feet. GeoNames reads 2,244 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

2,005 m – 2,561 m

Mean 2,264 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 556 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 100

among the towns of Southern, and 217th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Duna

9.6 km to the N, at 2,665 m, 462 m higher.

Cross-section through Fonko

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Fonko; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,446 m at 14 km west to 2,130 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,754 m at 14 km north to 1,975 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Fonko, 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.

Towns near Fonko

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Duna	9.6 km	N	2,665 m (8,743 ft)	+462 m
Lisana	10.9 km	S	2,213 m (7,260 ft)	+10 m
Doesha	12.3 km	SE	1,917 m (6,289 ft)	−286 m
Hossa'ina	16.8 km	SW	2,313 m (7,589 ft)	+110 m
Dima	21.4 km	NW	2,360 m (7,743 ft)	+157 m

Where Fonko is

Latitude 7.6478921, longitude 37.9665409. 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 Fonko'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 2,244 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.