Elevation of as-Samāwah, al-Muṯannā, Iraq

as-Samāwah, al-Muṯannā, Iraq is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

as-Samāwah's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Also written: as-Samawah السماوة.

Ground within 5 km

10 m – 15 m

Mean 13 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 5 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of al-Muṯannā, and 228th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

ar-Rumayṯah

24.5 km to the N, at 18 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through as-Samāwah

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 as-Samāwah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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

North to south: from 14 m at 13 km north to 16 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around as-Samāwah, 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 as-Samāwah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
ar-Rumayṯah	24.5 km	N	18 m (59 ft)	+3 m
al-H̱id̨r	27.7 km	SE	11 m (36 ft)	−4 m

Where as-Samāwah is

Latitude 31.3166667, longitude 45.2833333. 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 as-Samāwah'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 15 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.