Elevation of Foso, Central, Ghana

Foso, Central, Ghana is 160 m (525 ft) above sea level.

Foso's height from sea level is 160 metres, or 525 feet. GeoNames reads 148 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

126 m – 192 m

Mean 158 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 66 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 11

among the towns of Central, and 38th of 79 in Ghana.

Nearest town

36.9 km to the NE, at 119 m, 41 m lower.

Cross-section through Foso

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Foso; the vertical scale is the same on both.

220106WE28.7 km
West to east: from 114 m at 14 km west to 167 m at 14 km east.
220106NS28.7 km
North to south: from 134 m at 14 km north to 136 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Foso, 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 Foso

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Akim Swedru (Eastern) 36.9 kmNE 119 m (390 ft) −41 m
Oda (Eastern) 39.6 kmNE 123 m (404 ft) −37 m

Where Foso is

Latitude 5.7, longitude -1.2833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Foso elevation: 160 m (525 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 Foso'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 148 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.