Elevation of Sinjar, Nīnawā, Iraq

Sinjar, Nīnawā, Iraq is 522 m (1,713 ft) above sea level.

Sinjar's height from sea level is 522 metres, or 1,713 feet. GeoNames reads 517 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 522 m.

Also written: سنجر.

Ground within 5 km

430 m – 993 m

Mean 568 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 563 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 65

among the towns of Nīnawā, and 32nd of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

'Ayn-al-Gazāl

10.3 km to the SE, at 406 m, 116 m lower.

Cross-section through Sinjar

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

West to east: from 621 m at 13 km west to 472 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 549 m at 13 km north to 369 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Sinjar, 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 Sinjar

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
'Ayn-al-Gazāl	10.3 km	SE	406 m (1,332 ft)	−116 m
Tall Banāt	15.5 km	SE	382 m (1,253 ft)	−140 m
Quwasī	17.6 km	NW	516 m (1,693 ft)	−6 m
Jīr Qubbah	17.7 km	SW	368 m (1,207 ft)	−154 m
Tall al-H̨ā'iţ	22.8 km	SE	325 m (1,066 ft)	−197 m

Where Sinjar is

Latitude 36.322072, longitude 41.8650435. 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 Sinjar'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 517 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.