Elevation of Bahirkāh, Irbīl, Iraq

Bahirkāh, Irbīl, Iraq is 475 m (1,558 ft) above sea level.

Bahirkāh's height from sea level is 475 metres, or 1,558 feet. GeoNames reads 464 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: بهركاه.

Ground within 5 km

412 m – 530 m

Mean 472 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 118 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 13

among the towns of Irbīl, and 39th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Kalkān

6.1 km to the SE, at 493 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through Bahirkāh

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bahirkāh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 360 m at 13 km west to 688 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 551 m at 13 km north to 428 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Bahirkāh, 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 Bahirkāh

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kalkān	6.1 km	SE	493 m (1,617 ft)	+18 m
Šāwīš	9 km	SE	518 m (1,699 ft)	+43 m
Banī Šilāwah Gawrah	15.3 km	S	407 m (1,335 ft)	−68 m
Irbīl	15.3 km	S	407 m (1,335 ft)	−68 m
Darband	15.8 km	SE	650 m (2,133 ft)	+175 m

Peaks and passes near Bahirkāh

Qimmat Kūrak, peak at 1,231 m (4,039 ft), 21.2 km to the E — 756 m above the town.
Jabal Sāritkah, peak at 1,183 m (3,881 ft), 24 km to the E — 708 m above the town.
Jabal Sibī, peak at 1,129 m (3,704 ft), 22.4 km to the NE — 654 m above the town.

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

Where Bahirkāh is

Latitude 36.316667, longitude 44.033333. 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 Bahirkāh'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 464 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.