Elevation of aš-Šayẖān, Nīnawā, Iraq

aš-Šayẖān, Nīnawā, Iraq is 636 m (2,087 ft) above sea level.

aš-Šayẖān's height from sea level is 636 metres, or 2,087 feet.

Also written: ash Shikhan Šayẖān الشيخان.

Ground within 5 km

420 m – 997 m

Mean 603 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 577 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 65

among the towns of Nīnawā, and 20th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

'Ayn Sifnī

13 km to the SW, at 464 m, 172 m lower.

Cross-section through aš-Šayẖān

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 aš-Šayẖān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 724 m at 13 km west to 525 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,290 m at 13 km north to 365 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around aš-Šayẖān, 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 aš-Šayẖān

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
'Ayn Sifnī	13 km	SW	464 m (1,522 ft)	−172 m
Bāqasrah	16.5 km	S	430 m (1,411 ft)	−206 m
Ba'adrī	18.8 km	W	495 m (1,624 ft)	−141 m
Kalakjī	22.3 km	S	334 m (1,096 ft)	−302 m
Bēbān	27.8 km	W	456 m (1,496 ft)	−180 m

Where aš-Šayẖān is

Latitude 36.77, longitude 43.45. 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-Šayẖān'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.