Elevation of Tall 'Afar, Nīnawā, Iraq

Tall 'Afar, Nīnawā, Iraq is 387 m (1,270 ft) above sea level.

Tall 'Afar's height from sea level is 387 metres, or 1,270 feet. GeoNames reads 407 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 410 m.

Also written: Tel'afar Tilafar Tilefer Tell Afar تل عفر.

Ground within 5 km

325 m – 481 m

Mean 396 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 156 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 65

among the towns of Nīnawā, and 55th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

H̱arīz

23.7 km to the NE, at 331 m, 56 m lower.

Cross-section through Tall 'Afar

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

West to east: from 354 m at 13 km west to 425 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 401 m at 13 km north to 286 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Tall 'Afar, 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 Tall 'Afar

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
H̱arīz	23.7 km	NE	331 m (1,086 ft)	−56 m
Tu''aym	24.1 km	E	351 m (1,152 ft)	−36 m
Wāmišīyah	26.9 km	SW	283 m (928 ft)	−104 m
Abū Winni 'Amzabakk	27.4 km	N	354 m (1,161 ft)	−33 m
al-Juşşat-al-Janūbīyah	32.4 km	NE	361 m (1,184 ft)	−26 m

Peaks and passes near Tall 'Afar

Jabal Shaykh Ibrāhīm, peak at 585 m (1,919 ft), 15.8 km to the E — 198 m above the town.
Jabal Zambar, peak at 543 m (1,781 ft), 10.2 km to the E — 156 m above the town.

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

Where Tall 'Afar is

Latitude 36.3737179, longitude 42.451778. 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 Tall 'Afar'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 407 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.