Elevation of Kankan, Haute Guinée, Guinea

Kankan, Haute Guinée, Guinea is 382 m (1,253 ft) above sea level.

Kankan's height from sea level is 382 metres, or 1,253 feet. GeoNames reads 381 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

366 m – 415 m

Mean 383 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 8

among the towns of Haute Guinée, and 23rd of 39 in Guinea.

Cross-section through Kankan

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kankan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

424364WE28.5 km
West to east: from 421 m at 14 km west to 403 m at 14 km east.
424364NS28.5 km
North to south: from 399 m at 14 km north to 416 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kankan, 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.

Where Kankan is

Latitude 10.38404, longitude -9.305553. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kankan elevation: 382 m (1,253 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 Kankan'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 381 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.