Elevation of Kirkūk, at-Ta'mīm, Iraq

Kirkūk, at-Ta'mīm, Iraq is 350 m (1,148 ft) above sea level.

Kirkūk's height from sea level is 350 metres, or 1,148 feet. GeoNames reads 346 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 350 m.

Also written: Karkuk Kerkûk كركوك.

Ground within 5 km

305 m – 403 m

Mean 343 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 25

among the towns of at-Ta'mīm, and 67th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Bābā Gurgur

8.7 km to the NW, at 329 m, 21 m lower.

Cross-section through Kirkūk

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kirkūk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 281 m at 13 km west to 482 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 407 m at 13 km north to 289 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Kirkūk, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Kirkūk

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bābā Gurgur	8.7 km	NW	329 m (1,079 ft)	−21 m
Šūrījah	13.7 km	SW	262 m (860 ft)	−88 m
Tarkaškān	17 km	SE	314 m (1,030 ft)	−36 m
Qud̨ulīyah	19.1 km	SW	247 m (810 ft)	−103 m
Yah̨yāwah	21 km	SE	338 m (1,109 ft)	−12 m

Where Kirkūk is

Latitude 35.4688299, longitude 44.39098. 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 Kirkūk'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 346 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.