Elevation of an-Najaf, Iraq

an-Najaf, Iraq is 54 m (177 ft) above sea level.

an-Najaf's height from sea level is 54 metres, or 177 feet. Wikidata records 60 m.

Also written: Najaf Nejef Nedjef النجف.

Ground within 5 km

11 m – 61 m

Mean 40 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 50 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

169th of 260

among the towns of Iraq with a reading.

Nearest town

Kād̨im as-Salmān

13.7 km to the NE, at 28 m, 26 m lower.

Cross-section through an-Najaf

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is an-Najaf; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 10 m at 13 km west to 25 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 32 m at 13 km north to 16 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around an-Najaf, 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 an-Najaf

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kād̨im as-Salmān	13.7 km	NE	28 m (92 ft)	−26 m
Abū Şuẖayr (al-Qādisiyah)	17.3 km	SE	27 m (89 ft)	−27 m
al-Ja'ārah (al-Qādisiyah)	19.7 km	SE	23 m (75 ft)	−31 m
aš-Šāmīyah (al-Qādisiyah)	25.2 km	E	25 m (82 ft)	−29 m
al-Kifl (Bābil)	26.2 km	N	27 m (89 ft)	−27 m

Where an-Najaf is

Latitude 32.00048, longitude 44.330839. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at an-Najaf'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.