Africa topographic map

Several golf courses are located within or straddle the border with San Francisco. The Olympic Club has hosted the USGA U.S. Open five times, most recently in 2012, and will host both the 2028 PGA Championship and the 2032 Ryder Cup. The private San Francisco Golf Club and Lake Merced Golf Club have part or…

Average elevation: 75 m

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 180.1 square miles (466 km2), with 139.5 square miles (361 km2) of it being land, and 40.6 square miles (105.2 km2), or 22.5% of the total, being covered by water. The elevation in Mobile ranges from 10 feet (3 m) on Water Street in…

Average elevation: 16 m

The city slopes gently from the northwest to southeast on a till plain composed largely of glacial and lake clay. The most notable topographical feature in the city is the Detroit Moraine, a broad clay ridge on which the older portions of Detroit and Windsor are located, rising approximately 62 feet (19 m)…

Average elevation: 187 m

Average elevation: 172 m

Average elevation: 53 m

Average elevation: 37 m

In the summertime, many valley residents of the Wasatch Front visit the town to escape high temperatures. Park City is usually cooler than Salt Lake City as it lies mostly higher than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) above sea level, while Salt Lake City is situated at an elevation of about 4,300 feet (1,300 m).

Average elevation: 2,290 m

Average elevation: 439 m

Average elevation: 358 m

The land on which Taylorsville is located is part of an interconnected alluvial plain that was formed by the wearing down of the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains to the east and west. Beneath the surface, Taylorsville sits on more than a kilometer of unconsolidated rock, sand, and clay. The inactive Taylorsville…

Average elevation: 1,325 m

Average elevation: 59 m

Average elevation: 110 m

Average elevation: 50 m

Average elevation: 804 m

Average elevation: 48 m

Average elevation: 5 m

Average elevation: 17 m

Average elevation: 91 m

Average elevation: 872 m

Average elevation: 55 m

Average elevation: 6 m

Average elevation: 5 m

Average elevation: 6 m

Average elevation: 13 m

Biu is a town and a Local Government Area (LGA) in southern Borno State of Nigeria. The town is the administrative center of the LGA and was once the capital of the Biu kingdom, and is now capital of the Biu Emirate. Biu lies on the Biu Plateau at an average elevation of 626 meters. The region is semi-arid.

Average elevation: 506 m

The Southern Interior cities of Kamloops and Penticton have some of the warmest and longest summer climates in Canada (while higher elevations are cold and snowy), although their temperatures are often exceeded north of the Fraser Canyon, close to the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson rivers, where the…

Average elevation: 708 m

Railway in Purworejo is part of the southern Java railway system. Five train stations have served various areas in Purworejo. The primary station is Kutoarjo in Kutoarjo District. Located at an altitude of +16 meters, Kutoarjo Station is a large type A railway station that has seven (7) fully functioning lines…

Average elevation: 212 m

Average elevation: 136 m

Average elevation: 17 m

Gran Canaria is located in the Atlantic Ocean in a region known as Macaronesia about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (600 sq mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at Morro de la Agujereada, Gran Canaria is the…

Average elevation: 335 m

Average elevation: 300 m

Average elevation: 92 m

Average elevation: 1,924 m

With 10 climatic regions, 14 soil regions and 11 distinct ecological regions, regional classification becomes complicated with differences in soils, topography, geology, rainfall, and plant and animal communities. One classification system divides Texas, in order from southeast to west, into the following:…

Average elevation: 518 m

Most of Burkina Faso is a wide plateau formed by riverine systems and is called falaise de Banfora. There are three major rivers, the Red Volta, Black Volta and White Volta, which cuts through different valleys. The climate is generally hot, with unreliable rains across different seasons. Gold and quartz are…

Average elevation: 300 m

Average elevation: 274 m

Average elevation: 1,115 m

Average elevation: 71 m

Average elevation: 497 m

A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstones found principally along the Moray Firth coast. The Highlands are generally mountainous and the highest elevations in the British Isles are found here. Scotland has over 790 islands divided into four main groups: Shetland,…

Average elevation: 36 m

Most of Burkina Faso is a wide plateau formed by riverine systems and is called Falaise de Banfora. There are three major rivers, the Red Volta, Black Volta and White Volta, which cuts through different valleys. The climate is generally hot, with unreliable rains across different seasons. Gold and quartz are…

Average elevation: 294 m

The Nimba Range has a sub-equatorial montane climate. Temperature changes extremely with altitude, with a daytime maximum ranging between 24 °C and 33 °C, and the nightly minimum can fall below 10 °C. Some parts of the reserve receive significantly less precipitation, due to rain-shadow effect of the high…

Average elevation: 657 m

Average elevation: 11 m

Average elevation: 1,189 m

It is an almost uninhabited part of the greater Sahara Desert, an inhospitable desert region with long, extremely hot summers and short, very warm winters. The Erg Chech is a vast sandy expanse including compound and complex linear and star dunes. The mean elevation of the Erg Chech is just above 300 m,…

Average elevation: 335 m

Average elevation: 86 m

Average elevation: 130 m

Average elevation: 312 m

Average elevation: 134 m

Two weather stations collect climate data for the area, Aberdeen/Dyce Airport, and Craibstone. Both are about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) to the northwest of the city centre, and given that they are in close proximity to each other, exhibit very similar climatic regimes. Dyce tends to have marginally warmer daytime…

Average elevation: 46 m

Average elevation: 287 m

Average elevation: 186 m

Average elevation: 2,026 m

Average elevation: 277 m

Average elevation: 424 m

On the western edge of To'ovi'i rises Tekao, the island's highest peak, which reaches an elevation of 1,224 metres (4,016 ft). The western and northern edges of To'ovi'i are a mountain ridge, which catches much of the rain that waters the island.

Average elevation: 187 m

Average elevation: 309 m

Average elevation: 931 m

Average elevation: 116 m

Average elevation: 224 m

Average elevation: 99 m

Average elevation: 7 m

Average elevation: 10 m

Average elevation: 110 m

Average elevation: 206 m

Average elevation: 15 m

Average elevation: 223 m

Average elevation: 9 m

Geologists describe this type of landscape as a "drowned coast", where a rising sea level has invaded former land features, creating bays out of valleys and islands out of mountain tops. A rise in land elevation due to the melting of heavy glacier ice caused a slight rebounding effect of underlying rock; this…

Average elevation: 198 m

Average elevation: 27 m

Average elevation: 40 m

Average elevation: 2,358 m

Average elevation: 211 m

Average elevation: 224 m

Average elevation: 202 m

It is one of the Brazilian states with the most mountainous terrain, where 52% of the territory is located above 600 metres. According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system, Santa Catarina predominantly features a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) in the coastal lowlands and the lower altitude…

Average elevation: 530 m

Average elevation: 58 m

Average elevation: 23 m

Average elevation: 11 m

Average elevation: 127 m

Average elevation: 245 m

Average elevation: 301 m

Temperatures vary depending on the elevation. In general, at higher altitudes, the temperatures decrease and precipitation increases. The wettest area in the Czech Republic is found around Bílý Potok in Jizera Mountains and the driest region is the Louny District to the northwest of Prague. Another factor is…

Average elevation: 369 m

Average elevation: 166 m

Average elevation: 264 m

Lynchburg has a four-season humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with cool winters and hot, humid summers. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from 35.9 °F (2.2 °C) in January to 76.0 °F (24.4 °C) in July. Nights tend to be significantly cooler than days throughout much of the year due in part…

Average elevation: 229 m

Average elevation: 28 m

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14 km2), all of it land. The city spreads from the mostly flat lowlands near San Francisco Bay into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, which rise to more than 600 feet (180 m) above sea level in Crestmoor and…

Average elevation: 53 m

Average elevation: 54 m

Average elevation: 133 m

The terrain of the municipality of Don Carlos is generally flat except the mountain range on the eastern part of the municipality. The highest elevation is 700 metres (2,300 ft) above sea level and the lowest elevation is 300 metres (980 ft) below sea level.

Average elevation: 332 m

Average elevation: 437 m

Average elevation: 387 m

The land to the south of this moraine to the South Shore is the outwash plain of the last glacier. One part of the outwash plain was known as the Hempstead Plains, and this land contained one of the few natural prairies to exist east of the Appalachian Mountains. The glaciers melted and receded to the north,…

Average elevation: 42 m

Average elevation: 918 m

Average elevation: 28 m

Average elevation: 311 m

Average elevation: 228 m

Average elevation: 20 m

According to the United States Census Bureau, as of 2010 the city of Sugar Hill had a total land area of 10.6 square miles (27.5 km2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.33%, was water. The U.S. Geological Survey lists the city's elevation as 1,149 feet (350 m).

Average elevation: 332 m