Elevation of Karbalā', Karbalā, Iraq

Karbalā', Karbalā, Iraq is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

Karbalā''s height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 32 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 28 m.

Also written: Kerbela Kerbala Mashad Hussayn Messhed Hussein كربلاء.

Ground within 5 km

27 m – 52 m

Mean 35 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 25 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

200th of 260

among the towns of Iraq with a reading.

Nearest town

al-Hindīyah

20.3 km to the SE, at 33 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Karbalā'

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 Karbalā'; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 36 m at 13 km west to 30 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 27 m at 13 km north to 61 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Karbalā', 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 Karbalā'

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
al-Hindīyah (Bābil)	20.3 km	SE	33 m (108 ft)	+2 m
Saddat-al-Hindīyah (Bābil)	26.3 km	NE	35 m (115 ft)	+4 m
al-Musayyib (Bābil)	31.5 km	NE	35 m (115 ft)	+4 m
Qal'at Hājjī Šukrī (Bābil)	31.9 km	E	30 m (98 ft)	−1 m
Jurf-aş-Şaẖr (Bābil)	33 km	NE	36 m (118 ft)	+5 m

Where Karbalā' is

Latitude 32.6143, longitude 44.02483. 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 Karbalā''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 32 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.