Elevation of al-Kifl, Bābil, Iraq

al-Kifl, Bābil, Iraq is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.

al-Kifl's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 27 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: الكفل.

Ground within 5 km

25 m – 30 m

Mean 27 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 5 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 14

among the towns of Bābil, and 208th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

18.3 km to the S, at 28 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through al-Kifl

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-Kifl; the vertical scale is the same on both.

655WE26.5 km
West to east: from 48 m at 13 km west to 23 m at 13 km east.
655NS26.5 km
North to south: from 29 m at 13 km north to 25 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around al-Kifl, 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-Kifl

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kād̨im as-Salmān (an-Najaf) 18.3 kmS 28 m (92 ft) +1 m
an-Najaf (an-Najaf) 26.2 kmS 54 m (177 ft) +27 m
al-H̨illah 28.4 kmN 36 m (118 ft) +9 m
al-Qāsim 29.7 kmE 27 m (89 ft) same
al-Madh̨atīyah 33.1 kmNE 29 m (95 ft) +2 m

Where al-Kifl is

Latitude 32.232101, longitude 44.3818089. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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al-Kifl elevation: 27 m (89 ft) above sea level

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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-Kifl'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 27 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.