Elevation of Sankwia, Mansakonko, Gambia

Sankwia, Mansakonko, Gambia is 3 m (10 ft) above sea level.

Sankwia's height from sea level is 3 metres, or 10 feet. GeoNames reads 4 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 41 m

Mean 12 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

48th of 48

among the towns of Mansakonko, and 282nd of 285 in Gambia.

Nearest town

Karantaba

4.2 km to the S, at 14 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Sankwia

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sankwia; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2 m at 14 km west to 6 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 42 m at 14 km north to 44 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sankwia, 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 Sankwia

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Karantaba (Kuntaur)	4.2 km	S	14 m (46 ft)	+11 m
Jenoi	4.9 km	W	18 m (59 ft)	+15 m
Si Kunda	5 km	SW	16 m (52 ft)	+13 m
Tamba Koto (Kerewan)	5.1 km	N	14 m (46 ft)	+11 m
Bassik (Kerewan)	5.7 km	N	11 m (36 ft)	+8 m

Where Sankwia is

Latitude 13.480978, longitude -15.510115. 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 Sankwia'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.