Elevation of Būkān, Azarbayejān-e Gharbi, Iran

Būkān, Azarbayejān-e Gharbi, Iran is 1,360 m (4,462 ft) above sea level.

Būkān's height from sea level is 1,360 metres, or 4,462 feet. GeoNames reads 1,352 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,352 m.

Also written: Bokan بوكان.

Ground within 5 km

1,322 m – 1,518 m

Mean 1,379 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 196 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 31

among the towns of Azarbayejān-e Gharbi, and 323rd of 836 in Iran.

Nearest town

Saqqez

31.6 km to the S, at 1,472 m, 112 m higher.

Cross-section through Būkān

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Būkān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,592 m at 13 km west to 1,580 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,402 m at 13 km north to 1,571 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Būkān, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Būkān

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Saqqez (Kordestān)	31.6 km	S	1,472 m (4,829 ft)	+112 m
Shāhīn Dezh	35 km	NE	1,345 m (4,413 ft)	−15 m

Peaks and passes near Būkān

Kūh-e Pīr Soleymān, peak at 2,108 m (6,916 ft), 22.7 km to the W — 748 m above the town.
Kūh-e Kaltageh, peak at 2,098 m (6,883 ft), 13.6 km to the NE — 738 m above the town.
Kūh-e Kūshk, peak at 2,096 m (6,877 ft), 22.7 km to the W — 736 m above the town.

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

Where Būkān is

Latitude 36.5202778, longitude 46.2086111. 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 Būkān'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 1,352 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.