Elevation of aš-Šāhīn, al-Başrah, Iraq

aš-Šāhīn, al-Başrah, Iraq is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

aš-Šāhīn's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet.

Also written: الشاهين.

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 6 m

Mean 4 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 4 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 11

among the towns of al-Başrah, and 251st of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Nuhayrāt

3.8 km to the N, at 6 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through aš-Šāhīn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is aš-Šāhīn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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

North to south: from 4 m at 13 km north to 2 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around aš-Šāhīn, 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 aš-Šāhīn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Nuhayrāt	3.8 km	N	6 m (20 ft)	+1 m
al-H̨uwayr	11.9 km	W	5 m (16 ft)	same
al-Hāriṯah	38.5 km	SE	2 m (7 ft)	−3 m
aş-Şulayb (Maysān)	39 km	N	5 m (16 ft)	same

Where aš-Šāhīn is

Latitude 30.98, longitude 47.45. 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 aš-Šāhīn'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.