Elevation of Umm Qaşr, al-Başrah, Iraq

Umm Qaşr, al-Başrah, Iraq is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Umm Qaşr's height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Also written: ام قصر.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 27 m

Mean 9 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 27 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 11

among the towns of al-Başrah, and 238th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Şafwān

22.4 km to the NW, at 10 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Umm Qaşr

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 Umm Qaşr; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 15 m at 13 km west to 5 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 4 m at 13 km north to 25 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Umm Qaşr, 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 Umm Qaşr

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Şafwān	22.4 km	NW	10 m (33 ft)	+1 m

Where Umm Qaşr is

Latitude 30.0341667, longitude 47.9294444. 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 Umm Qaşr'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 13 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.