Elevation of as-Sulaymānīyah, Iraq

as-Sulaymānīyah, Iraq is 832 m (2,730 ft) above sea level.

as-Sulaymānīyah's height from sea level is 832 metres, or 2,730 feet. GeoNames reads 847 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 882 m.

Also written: as-Sulaymaniyah Sulaymaniya Süleymaniye Silêmanî Sulaymaniyah السليمانية.

Ground within 5 km

723 m – 1,396 m

Mean 868 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 673 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 18

among the towns of as-Sulaymānīyah, and 10th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Šaqlāwah

7.8 km to the S, at 656 m, 176 m lower.

Cross-section through as-Sulaymānīyah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is as-Sulaymānīyah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 730 m at 13 km west to 1,088 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,518 m at 13 km north to 825 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around as-Sulaymānīyah, 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.

Towns near as-Sulaymānīyah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Šaqlāwah	7.8 km	S	656 m (2,152 ft)	−176 m
'Arbat	19.5 km	SE	714 m (2,343 ft)	−118 m
Allāyī Sārū	24.4 km	W	864 m (2,835 ft)	+32 m
Taynal	32 km	W	852 m (2,795 ft)	+20 m
Muqāq	32.5 km	NW	812 m (2,664 ft)	−20 m

Peaks and passes near as-Sulaymānīyah

Qimmat Jābir, peak at 2,098 m (6,883 ft), 23.8 km to the NW — 1,266 m above the town.
Kird Harmayshīnān, peak at 1,521 m (4,990 ft), 17.2 km to the N — 689 m above the town.
Shākhah Şūr, peak at 1,418 m (4,652 ft), 19.5 km to the N — 586 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where as-Sulaymānīyah is

Latitude 35.55, longitude 45.4333333. 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 as-Sulaymānīyah'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 847 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.