Elevation of Alqōš, Nīnawā, Iraq

Alqōš, Nīnawā, Iraq is 560 m (1,837 ft) above sea level.

Alqōš's height from sea level is 560 metres, or 1,837 feet. GeoNames reads 530 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Alqosh القوش.

Ground within 5 km

433 m – 943 m

Mean 561 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 510 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 65

among the towns of Nīnawā, and 28th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Bēbān

6.2 km to the SE, at 456 m, 104 m lower.

Cross-section through Alqōš

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alqōš; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 406 m at 13 km west to 565 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 788 m at 13 km north to 344 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Alqōš, 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 Alqōš

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bēbān	6.2 km	SE	456 m (1,496 ft)	−104 m
Dayr Sātūn	9.8 km	SW	383 m (1,257 ft)	−177 m
Ba'adrī	13.8 km	E	495 m (1,624 ft)	−65 m
Fāidah (Dahūk)	14.1 km	W	433 m (1,421 ft)	−127 m
Girpān (Dahūk)	15.1 km	W	404 m (1,325 ft)	−156 m

Peaks and passes near Alqōš

Chiyā-i Māmsan, peak at 1,184 m (3,885 ft), 15.4 km to the N — 624 m above the town.
Chiyā-i Barnshkī, peak at 1,155 m (3,789 ft), 24.2 km to the N — 595 m above the town.
Sar-i Birnāwishk, peak at 1,100 m (3,609 ft), 17.3 km to the N — 540 m above the town.

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

Where Alqōš is

Latitude 36.7352778, longitude 43.0963889. 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 Alqōš'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 530 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.