List of cities by elevation - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of the world's major (mostly capital) cities by elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

. In addition, the country

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

, continental region

Continent

A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents—they are : Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.Plate tectonics is...

, latitude

Latitude

In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...

and longitude

Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....

are shown for all cities listed.

While the elevation of cities may vary enormously, this list should represent a notional elevation for each city which is verifiable and reasonably acceptable for comparison.

Country/Territory	City Name/s	Continental Region	Latitude	Longitude	Elevation (m)
Albania	Tirane / Tirana	Europe	N41.3317	E19.8172	104
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Europe	N42.5075	E1.5218	1409
Austria	Vienna	Europe	N48.2092	E16.3728	170
Belarus	Minsk	Europe	N53.9678	E27.5766	198
Belgium	Bruxelles / Brussels	Europe	N50.8371	E4.3676	76
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Europe	N43.8608	E18.4214	577
Bulgaria	Sofiya / Sofia	Europe	N42.7105	E23.3238	591
Croatia	Zagreb	Europe	N45.8150	E15.9785	130
Czech Republic	Praha / Prague	Europe	N50.0878	E14.4205	244
Denmark	Kobenhavn / Copenhagen	Europe	N55.6763	E12.5681	0
Estonia	Tallinn	Europe	N59.4389	E24.7545	37
Finland	Helsinki	Europe	N60.1699	E24.9384	25
France	Paris	Europe	N48.8567	E2.3510	34
Germany	Berlin	Europe	N52.5235	E13.4115	34
Greece	Athinai / Athens	Europe	N37.9792	E23.7166	153
Hungary	Budapest	Europe	N47.4984	E19.0408	102
Iceland	Reykjavik	Europe	N64.1353	W21.8952	15
Ireland	Dublin	Europe	N53.3441	W6.2675	8
Italy	Roma / Rome	Europe	N41.8955	E12.4823	14
Latvia	Riga	Europe	N56.9465	E24.1049	8
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	Europe	N47.1411	E9.5215	601
Lithuania	Vilnius	Europe	N54.6896	E25.2799	124
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Europe	N49.6100	E6.1296	273
Macedonia	Skopje	Europe	N42.0024	E21.4361	243
Malta	Valletta	Europe	N35.9042	E14.5189	0
Moldova	Chisinau	Europe	N47.0167	E28.8497	80
Monaco	Monaco	Europe	N43.7325	E7.4189	0
Montenegro	Podgorica	Europe	N42.4602	E19.2595	61
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Europe	N52.3738	E4.8910	-1
Norway	Oslo	Europe	N59.9138	E10.7387	12
Poland	Warszawa / Warsaw	Europe	N52.2297	E21.0122	93
Portugal	Lisboa / Lisbon	Europe	N38.7072	W9.1355	15
Romania	Bucuresti / Bucharest	Europe	N44.4479	E26.0979	70
Russia	Moskva / Moscow	Europe	N55.7558	E37.6176	124
San Marino	San Marino	Europe	N43.9424	E12.4578	328
Serbia	Beograd / Belgrade	Europe	N44.8048	E20.4781	116
Slovakia	Bratislava	Europe	N48.2116	E17.1547	131
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Europe	N46.0514	E14.5060	281
Spain	Madrid	Europe	N40.4167	W3.7033	588
Sweden	Stockholm	Europe	N59.3328	E18.0645	15
Switzerland	Bern	Europe	N46.9480	E7.4481	513
Ukraine	Kyiv / Kiev	Europe	N50.4422	E30.5367	168
United Kingdom	London	Europe	N51.5002	W0.1262	14
Faroe Islands (DK)	Torshavn (on Streymoy)	Europe	N62.0177	W6.7719	0
Gibraltar (UK)	Gibraltar	Europe	N36.1377	W5.3453	447
Guernsey (UK)	Saint Peter Port	Europe	N49.4660	W2.5522	0
Isle of Man (UK)	Douglas	Europe	N54.1670	W4.4821	34
Jersey (UK)	Saint Helier	Europe	N49.1919	W2.1071	0
Kosovo (RS)	Pristina / Prishtine	Europe	N42.6740	E21.1788	652
Svalbard (NO)	Longyearbyen	Europe	N78.2186	E15.6488	199
Afghanistan	Kabol / Kabul	Asia	N34.5155	E69.1952	1807
Armenia	Yerevan	Asia	N40.1596	E44.5090	1032
Azerbaijan	Baki / Baku	Asia	N40.3834	E49.8932	1
Bahrain	Al Manamah / Manama	Asia	N26.1921	E50.5354	6
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Asia	N23.7106	E90.3978	3
Bhutan	Thimphu	Asia	N27.4405	E89.6730	2736
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	Asia	N4.9431	E114.9425	0
Cambodia	Phnum Penh / Phnom Penh	Asia	N11.5434	E104.8984	15
China	Beijing / Peking	Asia	N39.9056	E116.3958	63
Cyprus	Nicosia	Asia	N35.1676	E33.3736	134
Georgia	T'bilisi / Tiflis	Asia	N41.7010	E44.7930	451
India	New Delhi	Asia	N28.6353	E77.2250	210
Indonesia	Jakarta (on Java)	Asia	S6.1862	E106.8063	3
Iran	Tehran / Teheran	Asia	N35.7061	E51.4358	1138
Iraq	Baghdad	Asia	N33.3157	E44.3922	40
Israel	Yerushalayim / Jerusalem	Asia	N31.7857	E35.2007	580
Japan	Tokyo	Asia	N35.6785	E139.6823	17
Jordan	Amman	Asia	N31.9394	E35.9349	759
Kazakhstan	Astana	Asia	N51.1796	E71.4475	338
Kuwait	Al Kuwayt / Kuwait	Asia	N29.3721	E47.9824	5
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Asia	N42.8679	E74.5984	771
Laos	Viangchan / Vientiane	Asia	N17.9689	E102.6137	148
Lebanon	Beyrouth / Beirut	Asia	N33.8872	E35.5134	55
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Asia	N3.1502	E101.7077	60
Maldives	Maale / Male (on Male)	Asia	N4.1742	E73.5109	0
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar / Ulan Bator	Asia	N47.9138	E106.9220	1284
Myanmar / Burma	Pyinmana	Asia	N19.7378	E96.2083	77
Nepal	Kathmandu	Asia	N27.7058	E85.3157	1298
North Korea	P'yongyang	Asia	N39.0187	E125.7468	6
Oman	Masqat / Muscat	Asia	N23.6086	E58.5922	68
Pakistan	Islamabad	Asia	N33.6751	E73.0946	507
Philippines	Manila	Asia	N14.5790	E120.9726	7
Qatar	Ad Dawhah / Doha	Asia	N25.2948	E51.5082	13
Saudi Arabia	Ar Riyad / Riyadh	Asia	N24.6748	E46.6977	624
Singapore	Singapore	Asia	N1.2894	E103.8500	0
South Korea	Seoul	Asia	N37.5139	E126.9828	33
Sri Lanka	Colombo	Asia	N6.9155	E79.8572	4
Syria	Dimashq / Damascus	Asia	N33.5158	E36.2939	691
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Asia	N38.5737	E68.7738	789
Thailand	Krung Thep / Bangkok	Asia	N13.7573	E100.5020	1
Timor-Leste / East Timor	Dili	Asia	S8.5662	E125.5880	11
Turkey	Ankara	Asia	N39.9439	E32.8560	938
Turkmenistan	Asgabat / Ashgabat	Asia	N37.9509	E58.3794	215
United Arab Emirates	Abu Zaby / Abu Dhabi	Asia	N24.4764	E54.3705	13
Uzbekistan	Toshkent / Tashkent	Asia	N41.3193	E69.2481	459
Vietnam	Ha Noi / Hanoi	Asia	N21.0341	E105.8372	25
Yemen	San'a' / Sanaa	Asia	N15.3556	E44.2081	2253
Taiwan (CN)	T'ai-pei / Taipei	Asia	N25.0338	E121.5645	5
Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's (on Antigua)	Americas	N17.1175	W61.8456	0
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Americas	S34.6118	W58.4173	10
Bahamas	Nassau (on New Providence)	Americas	N25.0661	W77.3390	2
Barbados	Bridgetown	Americas	N13.0935	W59.6105	6
Belize	Belmopan	Americas	N17.2534	W88.7713	59
Bolivia	La Paz	Americas	S19.0421	W65.2559	3660
Brazil	Brasilia	Americas	S15.7801	W47.9292	1079
Canada	Ottawa	Americas	N45.4235	W75.6979	74
Chile	Santiago	Americas	S33.4691	W70.6420	521
Colombia	Bogota	Americas	N4.6473	W74.0962	2619
Costa Rica	San Jose	Americas	N9.9402	W84.1002	1146
Cuba	La Habana / Havana	Americas	N23.1333	W82.3667	4
Dominica	Roseau	Americas	N15.2976	W61.3900	0
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Americas	N18.4790	W69.8908	0
Ecuador	Quito	Americas	S0.2295	W78.5243	2763
El Salvador	San Salvador	Americas	N13.7034	W89.2073	658
Grenada	Saint George's	Americas	N12.0540	W61.7486	25
Guatemala	Guatemala	Americas	N14.6248	W90.5328	1529
Guyana	Georgetown	Americas	N6.8046	W58.1548	0
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Americas	N18.5392	W72.3288	98
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Americas	N14.0821	W87.2063	980
Jamaica	Kingston	Americas	N17.9927	W76.7920	53
Mexico	Ciudad de Mexico	Americas	N19.4271	W99.1276	2216
Nicaragua	Managua	Americas	N12.1475	W86.2734	75
Panama	Panama	Americas	N8.9943	W79.5188	0
Paraguay	Asuncion	Americas	S25.3005	W57.6362	54
Peru	Lima	Americas	S12.0931	W77.0465	107
St. Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre (on St. Kitts)	Americas	N17.2968	W62.7138	0
St. Lucia	Castries	Americas	N13.9972	W60.0018	204
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown (on St. Vincent)	Americas	N13.2035	W61.2653	0
Suriname	Paramaribo	Americas	N5.8232	W55.1679	1
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain (on Trinidad)	Americas	N10.6596	W61.4789	0
United States	Washington	Americas	N38.8921	W77.0241	2
Uruguay	Montevideo	Americas	S34.8941	W56.0675	43
Venezuela	Caracas	Americas	N10.4961	W66.8983	909
Anguilla (UK)	The Valley	Americas	N18.2249	W63.0669	0
Aruba (NL)	Oranjestad	Americas	N12.5246	W70.0265	13
Bermuda (UK)	Hamilton (on Main Island)	Americas	N32.2930	W64.7820	0
British Virgin Islands (UK)	Road Town (on Tortola)	Americas	N18.4328	W64.6235	0
Cayman Islands (UK)	George Town (on Grand Cayman)	Americas	N19.3022	W81.3857	3
Falkland Islands (UK)	Stanley (on East Falkland)	Americas	S51.7010	W57.8492	0
French Guiana (FR)	Cayenne	Americas	N4.9346	W52.3303	32
Greenland (DK)	Nuuk	Americas	N64.1836	W51.7214	0
Guadeloupe (FR)	Basse-Terre	Americas	N15.9985	W61.7220	0
Martinique (FR)	Fort-de-France	Americas	N14.5997	W61.0760	0
Montserrat (UK)	Plymouth	Americas	N16.6802	W62.2014	114
Netherlands Antilles (NL)	Willemstad (on Curacao)	Americas	N12.1034	W68.9335	0
Puerto Rico (US)	San Juan	Americas	N18.4500	W66.0667	3
St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR)	Saint-Pierre (on St. Pierre)	Americas	N46.7878	W56.1968	0
Turks- and Caicos Islands (UK)	Cockburn Town (on Grand Turk)	Americas	N21.4608	W71.1363	0
United States Virgin Islands (US)	Charlotte Amalie (on St. Thomas)	Americas	N18.3405	W64.9326	0
Algeria	Alger /Algiers	Africa	N36.7755	E3.0597	0
Angola	Luanda	Africa	S8.8159	E13.2306	6
Benin	Porto-Novo	Africa	N6.4779	E2.6323	38
Botswana	Gaborone	Africa	S24.6570	E25.9089	1014
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Africa	N12.3569	W1.5352	305
Burundi	Bujumbura	Africa	S3.3818	E29.3622	794
Cameroon	Yaounde	Africa	N3.8612	E11.5217	726
Cape Verde	Praia (on Sao Tiago)	Africa	N14.9195	W23.5153	0
Central African Republic	Bangui	Africa	N4.3621	E18.5873	369
Chad	N'djamena	Africa	N12.1121	E15.0355	298
Comoros	Moroni (on Njazidja)	Africa	S11.7004	E43.2412	110
Congo	Brazzaville	Africa	S4.2767	E15.2662	155
Congo (Democratic Republic)	Kinshasa	Africa	S4.3369	E15.3271	240
Cote d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	Africa	N6.8067	W5.2728	217
Djibouti	Djibouti	Africa	N11.5806	E43.1425	0
Egypt	Al Qahirah / Cairo	Africa	N30.0571	E31.2272	22
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo (on Bioko)	Africa	N3.7523	E8.7741	107
Eritrea	Asmara	Africa	N15.3315	E38.9183	2363
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa / Addis Abeba	Africa	N9.0084	E38.7575	2362
Gabon	Libreville	Africa	N0.3858	E9.4496	0
Gambia	Banjul	Africa	N13.4399	W16.6775	0
Ghana	Accra	Africa	N5.5401	W0.2074	98
Guinea	Conakry	Africa	N9.5370	W13.6785	0
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Africa	N11.8598	W15.5875	0
Kenya	Nairobi	Africa	S1.2762	E36.7965	1728
Lesotho	Maseru	Africa	S29.2976	E27.4854	1673
Liberia	Monrovia	Africa	N6.3106	W10.8047	0
Libya	Tarabulus / Tripoli	Africa	N32.8830	E13.1897	6
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Africa	S18.9201	E47.5237	1288
Malawi	Lilongwe	Africa	S13.9899	E33.7703	1024
Mali	Bamako	Africa	N12.6530	W7.9864	349
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Africa	N18.0669	W15.9900	6
Mauritius	Port Louis	Africa	S20.1654	E57.4896	134
Morocco	Rabat	Africa	N33.9905	W6.8704	53
Mozambique	Maputo	Africa	S25.9686	E32.5804	63
Namibia	Windhoek	Africa	S22.5749	E17.0805	1721
Niger	Niamey	Africa	N13.5164	E2.1157	207
Nigeria	Abuja	Africa	N9.0580	E7.4891	777
Rwanda	Kigali	Africa	S1.9441	E30.0619	1567
Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tome (on Sao Tome)	Africa	N0.3360	E6.7311	141
Senegal	Dakar	Africa	N14.6953	W17.4439	37
Seychelles	Victoria (on Mahe)	Africa	S4.6167	E55.4500	0
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Africa	N8.4697	W13.2659	76
Somalia	Muqdisho / Mogadishu	Africa	N2.0411	E45.3426	28
South Africa	Pretoria	Africa	S25.7463	E28.1876	1271
Sudan	Al Khartum / Khartoum	Africa	N15.6331	E32.5330	377
Swaziland	Mbabane	Africa	S26.3186	E31.1410	1243
Tanzania	Dodoma	Africa	S6.1670	E35.7497	1148
Togo	Lome	Africa	N6.1228	E1.2255	63
Tunisia	Tunis	Africa	N36.8117	E10.1761	0
Uganda	Kampala	Africa	N0.3133	E32.5714	1202
Zambia	Lusaka	Africa	S15.4145	E28.2809	1270
Zimbabwe	Harare	Africa	S17.8227	E31.0496	1480
Mayotte (FR)	Mamoudzou	Africa	S12.7806	E45.2278	0
Reunion (FR)	Saint Denis	Africa	S20.8732	E55.4603	112
St. Helena (UK)	Jamestown	Africa	S15.9244	W5.7181	292
Western Sahara (MA)	Laayoune / El Aaiun	Africa	N27.1536	W13.2033	72
Australia	Canberra	Oceania	S35.2820	E149.1286	605
Fiji	Suva (on Viti Levu)	Oceania	S18.1416	E178.4419	0
Kiribati	Bairiki (on Tarawa)	Oceania	N1.3282	E172.9784	0
Marshall Islands	Dalap-Uliga-Darrit (on Majuro)	Oceania	N7.1167	E171.3667	0
Micronesia (Federated States)	Palikir (on Pohnpei)	Oceania	N6.9177	E158.1854	207
Nauru	Yaren	Oceania	S0.5434	E166.9196	9
New Zealand	Wellington	Oceania	S41.2865	E174.7762	20
Palau	Melekeok (on Babelthuap)	Oceania	N7.5007	E134.6241	0
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Oceania	S9.4656	E147.1969	39
Samoa	Apia (on Upolu)	Oceania	S13.8314	W171.7518	0
Solomon Islands	Honiara (on Guadalcanal)	Oceania	S9.4333	E159.9500	29
Tonga	Nuku'alofa (on Tongatapu)	Oceania	S21.1360	W175.2164	0
Tuvalu	Vaiaku (on Funafuti)	Oceania	S8.5210	E179.1983	0
Vanuatu	Port Vila (on Efate)	Oceania	S17.7404	E168.3210	0
American Samoa (US)	Pago Pago (on Tutuila)	Oceania	S14.2793	W170.7009	49
Christmas Island (AU)	The Settlement / Flying Fish Cove	Oceania	S10.4286	E105.6807	0
Cocos Islands (AU)	Pulu Panjang / West Island	Oceania	S12.1869	E96.8283	0
Cook Islands (NZ)	Avarua (on Rarotonga)	Oceania	S21.2039	W159.7658	208
French Polynesia (FR)	Papeete (on Tahiti)	Oceania	S17.5350	W149.5696	59
Guam (US)	Hagatna	Oceania	N13.4667	E144.7470	9
New Caledonia (FR)	Noumea (on Grande Terre)	Oceania	S22.2758	E166.4581	0
Niue (NZ)	Alofi	Oceania	S19.0565	W169.9237	6
Norfolk Island (AU)	Kingston	Oceania	S29.0545	E167.9666	0
Northern Mariana Islands (US)	Garapan (on Saipan)	Oceania	N15.2069	E145.7197	132
Pitcairn Islands (UK)	Adamstown (on Pitcairn)	Oceania	S25.0662	W130.1027	0
Wallis and Futuna (FR)	Mata-Utu (on Wallis)	Oceania	S13.2784	W176.1430	0
Tibet, China	Lhasa	Asia	N29.3900	E91.0700	3490

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