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The highest towns in the world (100)
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Capital cities ranked by elevation (192)
Towns above 3,000 metres (665)

Elevations are read from the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells, about 1 km). Second readings are from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0), each named where it is used. A town's elevation is that of the 1 km cell at its recorded coordinates; streets within it rise and fall.

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