Elevation of Karkaj, Azarbayejān-e Sharqi, Iran

Karkaj, Azarbayejān-e Sharqi, Iran is 1,652 m (5,420 ft) above sea level.

Karkaj's height from sea level is 1,652 metres, or 5,420 feet. GeoNames reads 1,647 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: كركج.

Ground within 5 km

1,528 m – 1,783 m

Mean 1,672 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 255 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 45

among the towns of Azarbayejān-e Sharqi, and 183rd of 836 in Iran.

Nearest town

Kondrūd

4.8 km to the SE, at 1,693 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Karkaj

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Karkaj; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,512 m at 13 km west to 1,660 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,685 m at 13 km north to 2,108 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Karkaj, 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 Karkaj

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kondrūd	4.8 km	SE	1,693 m (5,554 ft)	+41 m
Bāsmenj	8.5 km	SE	1,817 m (5,961 ft)	+165 m
Tabrīz	13.1 km	W	1,387 m (4,551 ft)	−265 m
Līqvān	22.6 km	S	2,312 m (7,585 ft)	+660 m
Khelejān	23 km	W	1,421 m (4,662 ft)	−231 m

Peaks and passes near Karkaj

Sīrān Dāgh, peak at 2,631 m (8,632 ft), 22.7 km to the S — 979 m above the town.
Kūh-e Sīāh Pūsh, peak at 2,429 m (7,969 ft), 23.6 km to the SW — 777 m above the town.
Kūh-e Dand, peak at 2,386 m (7,828 ft), 13.1 km to the N — 734 m above the town.

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

Where Karkaj is

Latitude 38.04, longitude 46.43. 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 Karkaj'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 1,647 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.