Elevation of Soka, Oromia, Ethiopia

Soka, Oromia, Ethiopia is 1,474 m (4,836 ft) above sea level.

Soka's height from sea level is 1,474 metres, or 4,836 feet. GeoNames reads 1,417 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,393 m – 2,348 m

Mean 1,850 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 955 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

261st of 284

among the towns of Oromia, and 524th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

13 km to the SW, at 1,683 m, 209 m higher.

Cross-section through Soka

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 Soka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,7051,278WE28.6 km
West to east: from 2,433 m at 14 km west to 2,079 m at 14 km east.
2,7051,278NS28.6 km
North to south: from 2,268 m at 14 km north to 1,510 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Soka, 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 Soka

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Jaja 13 kmSW 1,683 m (5,522 ft) +209 m
Deder 17.3 kmN 2,306 m (7,566 ft) +832 m
Bedeno 21 kmE 2,210 m (7,251 ft) +736 m
Karamile 24.4 kmN 2,242 m (7,356 ft) +768 m
Mesela 32.2 kmW 2,437 m (7,995 ft) +963 m

Where Soka is

Latitude 9.166667, longitude 41.45. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Soka elevation: 1,474 m (4,836 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 Soka'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 1,417 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.