Elevation of al-Başrah, Iraq

al-Başrah, Iraq is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

al-Başrah's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. Wikidata records 5 m.

Also written: al-Basrah Basra Bassora Bassorah Bussora Bussorah Busra Busrah البصرة.

Ground within 5 km

1 m – 7 m

Mean 4 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 6 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 11

among the towns of al-Başrah, and 251st of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

H̨amrīnān

17.1 km to the NW, at 3 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through al-Başrah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-Başrah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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

North to south: from 4 m at 13 km north to 1 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around al-Başrah, 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 al-Başrah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
H̨amrīnān	17.1 km	NW	3 m (10 ft)	−2 m
Abū-al-H̱aşīb	17.2 km	SE	5 m (16 ft)	same
az-Zubayr	18.1 km	SW	11 m (36 ft)	+6 m
al-Hāriṯah	25.2 km	N	2 m (7 ft)	−3 m
Khorramshahr (Iran)	36.6 km	E	3 m (10 ft)	−2 m

Where al-Başrah is

Latitude 30.51992, longitude 47.8237189. 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 al-Başrah'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.