Elevation of Ben, Chahār Mahāl-e Bakhtiari, Iran

Ben, Chahār Mahāl-e Bakhtiari, Iran is 2,195 m (7,201 ft) above sea level.

Ben's height from sea level is 2,195 metres, or 7,201 feet. GeoNames reads 2,187 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2,300 m.

Also written: بن.

Ground within 5 km

2,106 m – 2,569 m

Mean 2,231 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 463 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 31

among the towns of Chahār Mahāl-e Bakhtiari, and 32nd of 836 in Iran.

Nearest town

17.8 km to the S, at 2,082 m, 113 m lower.

Cross-section through Ben

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ben; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,5611,868WE26.5 km
West to east: from 2,497 m at 13 km west to 2,027 m at 13 km east.
2,5611,868NS26.5 km
North to south: from 2,224 m at 13 km north to 2,130 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Ben, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 56 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 Ben

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chāl Shotor 17.8 kmS 2,082 m (6,831 ft) −113 m
Sāmān 18 kmSE 1,960 m (6,430 ft) −235 m
Sūrshjān 25.2 kmS 2,089 m (6,854 ft) −106 m
Shahr-e Kord 25.3 kmSE 2,079 m (6,821 ft) −116 m
Chādegān (Eşfahān) 28.5 kmNW 2,122 m (6,962 ft) −73 m

Peaks and passes near Ben

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Ben is

Latitude 32.534489, longitude 50.747002. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ben elevation: 2,195 m (7,201 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 Ben'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 2,187 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.