Elevation of Jailan, Kuntaur, Gambia

Jailan, Kuntaur, Gambia is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Jailan's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 4 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

3 m – 48 m

Mean 18 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 47

among the towns of Kuntaur, and 278th of 285 in Gambia.

Nearest town

4.3 km to the E, at 23 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through Jailan

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jailan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

55-6WE28.3 km
West to east: from 18 m at 14 km west to 22 m at 14 km east.
55-6NS28.3 km
North to south: from 46 m at 14 km north to 35 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Jailan, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 Jailan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Safalu 4.3 kmE 23 m (75 ft) +18 m
Kununku (Janjanbureh) 6.3 kmS 6 m (20 ft) +1 m
Ngeden 7.3 kmNW 16 m (52 ft) +11 m
Kudang Tenda (Janjanbureh) 7.3 kmSW 7 m (23 ft) +2 m
Jalo Kunda Demba Sira 7.8 kmNE 31 m (102 ft) +26 m

Where Jailan is

Latitude 13.72, longitude -15.02. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Jailan elevation: 5 m (16 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 Jailan'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 4 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.