Elevation of Şafwān, al-Başrah, Iraq

Şafwān, al-Başrah, Iraq is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Şafwān's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: صفوان.

Ground within 5 km

5 m – 21 m

Mean 11 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 16 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 11

among the towns of al-Başrah, and 237th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Umm Qaşr

22.4 km to the SE, at 9 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Şafwān

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 Şafwān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 29 m at 13 km west to 12 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 19 m at 13 km north to 36 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Şafwān, 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 Şafwān

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Umm Qaşr	22.4 km	SE	9 m (30 ft)	−1 m
az-Zubayr	30.2 km	N	11 m (36 ft)	+1 m

Peaks and passes near Şafwān

Jabal Sanām, hill at 466 m (1,529 ft), 8.8 km to the W — 456 m above the town.

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

Where Şafwān is

Latitude 30.1166667, longitude 47.7166667. 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 Şafwān'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 11 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.