Elevation of ar-Ruţbah, al-Anbār, Iraq

ar-Ruţbah, al-Anbār, Iraq is 617 m (2,024 ft) above sea level.

ar-Ruţbah's height from sea level is 617 metres, or 2,024 feet. GeoNames reads 620 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: ar-Rutba الرطبة.

Ground within 5 km

609 m – 646 m

Mean 627 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 37 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 25

among the towns of al-Anbār, and 23rd of 260 in Iraq.

Cross-section through ar-Ruţbah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is ar-Ruţbah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

716606WE26.4 km
West to east: from 666 m at 13 km west to 615 m at 13 km east.
716606NS26.4 km
North to south: from 647 m at 13 km north to 662 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around ar-Ruţbah, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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.

Where ar-Ruţbah is

Latitude 33.0333333, longitude 40.2833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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ar-Ruţbah elevation: 617 m (2,024 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 ar-Ruţbah'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 620 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.