List of cities by elevation

The following is a list of the world's major cities by elevation. In addition, the country, continental region, latitude and longitude 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. The cities must at least of a population of 175,000 to be on the list.

Country/Territory	City Name/s	Continental Region	Latitude	Longitude	Population	Elevation (m)
Albania	Tirana	Europe	N41.3317	E19.8172		110
Austria	Vienna	Europe	N48.2092	E16.3728		170
Belarus	Minsk	Europe	N53.9678	E27.5766		198
Belgium	Brussels	Europe	N50.8371	E4.3676		13
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Europe	N43.8608	E18.4214		577
Bulgaria	Sofia	Europe	N42.7105	E23.3238	1,236,047	591
Bulgaria	Plovdiv	Europe	N42.1483203	E24.7429926	341,567	164
Bulgaria	Varna	Europe	N43.216667	E27.916667	314,539	10
Croatia	Zagreb	Europe	N45.8150	E15.9785	792,324	130
Czech Republic	Prague	Europe	N50.0878	E14.4205		244
Denmark	Aarhus	Europe	N56.15	E10.22	261,560	0
Denmark	Copenhagen	Europe	N55.6763	E12.5681	583,348	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
Germany	Munich	Europe	N48.1333	E11.5666		519
Greece	Athens	Europe	N37.9792	E23.7166		153
Hungary	Budapest	Europe	N47.4984	E19.0408		102
Ireland	Dublin	Europe	N53.3441	W6.2675		8
Italy	Rome	Europe	N41.8955	E12.4823		14
Georgia	Tbilisi	Europe	N41.7010	E44.7930		451
Kosovo	Pristina	Europe	N42.6740	E21.1788		652
Latvia	Riga	Europe	N56.9465	E24.1049		8
Lithuania	Vilnius	Europe	N54.6896	E25.2799		124
Moldova	Chisinau	Europe	N47.0167	E28.8497		80
Montenegro	Podgorica	Europe	N42.4602	E19.2595		61
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Europe	N52.3738	E4.8910		-2
Norway	Oslo	Europe	N59.9138	E10.7387		12
Poland	Warsaw	Europe	N52.2297	E21.0122		93
Portugal	Lisbon	Europe	N38.7072	W9.1355		15
Republic of Macedonia	Skopje	Europe	N42.0024	E21.4361		243
Romania	Bucharest	Europe	N44.4479	E26.0979		70
Russia	Moscow	Europe	N55.7558	E37.6176		124
Russia	Ufa	Europe	N54.7340	E55.9471	1,121,429	165
Serbia	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
Spain	Seville	Europe	N37.3772	W5.9869		7
Sweden	Stockholm	Europe	N59.3328	E18.0645		15
Switzerland	Bern	Europe	N46.9480	E7.4481		513
Ukraine	Kiev	Europe	N50.4422	E30.5367		168
Scotland (UK)	Edinburgh	Europe	N55.9518	W3.1834	492,680	47
England (UK)	London	Europe	N51.5002	W0.1262		14
England (UK)	Manchester	Europe	N53.951	W2.1448		38
Afghanistan	Kabul	Asia	N34.5155	E69.1952	3,678,034	1807
Armenia	Yerevan	Asia	N40.1596	E44.5090		1032
Azerbaijan	Baku	Asia	N40.3953	E49.8822		30
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Asia	N23.7106	E90.3978		3
Burma (Myanmar)	Pyinmana	Asia	N19.7378	E96.2083		77
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Asia	N11.5434	E104.8984		15
China	Beijing	Asia	N39.9056	E116.3958		63
China	Kunming	Asia	N25.04	E102.41	6,626,000	1892
India	New Delhi	Asia	N28.6353	E77.2250		210
India	Bangalore	Asia	N12.9833	E77.5833		920
India	Hyderabad	Asia	N17.3850	E78.4867		542
India	Shohratgarh	Asia	N27.23	E82.57	420,532	95
India	Srinagar	Asia	N34.0837	E74.7973	1,192,792	1585
Indonesia	Jakarta	Asia	S6.1862	E106.8063		3
Iran	Tehran	Asia	N35.7117	E51.4070		1235
Iraq	Baghdad	Asia	N33.3157	E44.3922		40
Israel	Jerusalem	Asia	N31.7857	E35.2007	865,721	580
Israel	Tel Aviv	Asia	N32.07	E34.78	432,892	5
Japan	Tokyo	Asia	N35.6785	E139.6823	9,272,565	17
Japan	Nagano	Asia	N36.6486	E138.1942	377,598	362
Jordan	Amman	Asia	N34.11	E21.41		1094
Kazakhstan	Astana	Asia	N51.1796	E71.4475		338
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Asia	N29.3721	E47.9824		5
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Asia	N42.8679	E74.5984		771
Laos	Vientiane	Asia	N17.9689	E102.6137		148
Lebanon	Beirut	Asia	N33.8872	E35.5134		55
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Asia	N3.1502	E101.7077		60
Mongolia	Ulan Bator	Asia	N47.9138	E106.9220		1284
Nepal	Kathmandu	Asia	N27.7058	E85.3157		1298
North Korea	Pyongyang	Asia	N39.0187	E125.7468		6
Oman	Masqat	Asia	N23.6086	E58.5922		68
Pakistan	Skardu	Asia	N35.1725	E75.3840		2228
Pakistan	Islamabad	Asia	N33.6751	E73.0946		507
Philippines	Baguio	Asia	N16.42	E120.60	345,366	1540
Philippines	Manila	Asia	N14.5790	E120.9726	12,877,253	7
Qatar	Doha	Asia	N25.2948	E51.5082		13
Saudi Arabia	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	Damascus	Asia	N33.5158	E36.2939		691
Taiwan	Kaohsiung	Asia	N22.6333	E120.2667		9
Taiwan	Taipei	Asia	N25.0338	E121.5645		5
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Asia	N38.5737	E68.7738		789
Thailand	Bangkok	Asia	N13.7573	E100.5020		1
Tibet (CN)	Lhasa	Asia	N29.3900	E91.0700	223,001	3490
Timor-Leste (East Timor)	Dili	Asia	S8.5662	E125.5880		11
Turkey	Ankara	Asia	N39.9439	E32.8560		938
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	Asia	N37.9509	E58.3794		215
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Asia	N24.4764	E54.3705		13
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Asia	N41.3193	E69.2481		459
Vietnam	Da Lat	Asia	N11.941667	E108.438333	305,509	1500
Vietnam	Hanoi	Asia	N21.0341	E105.8372		25
Yemen	Sana'a	Asia	N15.3556	E44.2081	1,937,451	2253
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Americas	S34.6118	W58.4173		10
Bahamas	Nassau (on New Providence)	Americas	N25.0661	W77.3390		2
Bolivia	La Paz	Americas	S19.0421	W65.2559	877,363	3812
Bolivia	Sucre	Americas	S19.0500	W65.2500	300,000	2810
Brazil	Brasília	Americas	S15.7801	W47.9292	4,291,577	1079
Brazil	São Paulo	Americas	S23.55	W46.6333	12,106,920	760
Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Americas	S22.90	W43.2045	7,456,682	0
Brazil	Salvador	Americas	S12.97	W38.5016	2,953,986	8
Brazil	Fortaleza	Americas	S03.73	W38.5270	2,609,716	21
Brazil	Belo Horizonte	Americas	S19.91	W43.9345	2,502,557	760
Brazil	Curitiba	Americas	S25.48	W49.3044	1,908,359	934
Brazil	Campos do Jordão	Americas	S22.74	W45.5963	290,520	1628
Canada	Calgary	Americas	N51.05	E114.05		1046
Canada	Edmonton	Americas	N53.53333	W113.5000		643
Canada	Montreal	Americas	N45.5017	W73.5673		60
Canada	Ottawa	Americas	N45.4235	W75.6979		74
Canada	Vancouver	Americas	N49.1446	E123.658		82
Chile	Santiago	Americas	S33.4691	W70.6420		521
Colombia	Bogota	Americas	N4.6473	W74.0962	7,878,783	2619
Costa Rica	San Jose	Americas	N9.9402	W84.1002		1146
Cuba	Havana	Americas	N23.1333	W82.3667		4
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Americas	N18.4790	W69.8908		0
Ecuador	Quito	Americas	S0.2295	W78.5243	2,671,191	2850
El Salvador	San Salvador	Americas	N13.7034	W89.2073		658
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Americas	N14.6248	W90.5328		1529
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	Mexico City	Americas	N19.4271	W99.1276	8,918,653	2216
Mexico	Guadalajara	Americas	N20.6666	W103.35	1,495,189	1566
Nicaragua	Managua	Americas	N12.1475	W86.2734		75
Panama	Panama City	Americas	N8.9943	W79.5188		0
Paraguay	Asuncion	Americas	S25.3005	W57.6362		54
Bolivia	El Alto	Americas			1,185,000	4100
Peru	Cusco	Americas	S13.5250	W71.9722	435,114	3399
Peru	Lima	Americas	S12.0931	W77.0465		107
Peru	Puno	Americas	S13.5036	W70.0126	149,042	3810
Puerto Rico (US)	San Juan	Americas	N18.4500	W66.0667		3
Suriname	Paramaribo	Americas	N5.8232	W55.1679		1
United States	Atlanta	Americas	33°45′18″N	84°23′24″W	463,878	225 to 320
United States	Chicago	Americas	N41.8369	W87.6847	2,695,598	181
United States	Denver	Americas	N39.7392	W104.9847	600,158	1610
United States	New York City	Americas	N40.7077	W74.0035		10
United States	Philadelphia	Americas	N40°00′34″ W75°08′00″	W75°08′00″		39
United States	Seattle	Americas	N47.6062	W122.332		57
United States	Washington D.C.	Americas	N38.8921	W77.0241		2
Uruguay	Montevideo	Americas	S34.8941	W56.0675		43
Venezuela	Caracas	Americas	N10.4961	W66.8983		909
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	Yaoundé	Africa	N3.8612	E11.5217		726
Central African Republic	Bangui	Africa	N4.3621	E18.5873		369
Chad	N'Djamena	Africa	N12.1121	E15.0355		298
Congo (Republic of)	Brazzaville	Africa	S4.2767	E15.2662		155
Congo (Democratic Republic)	Kinshasa	Africa	S4.3369	E15.3271		240
Côte 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
Eritrea	Asmara	Africa	N15.3315	E38.9183	649,000	2363
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Africa	N9.0084	E38.7575	3,384,569	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	3,138,369	1728
Lesotho	Maseru	Africa	S29.2976	E27.4854	227,880	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	325,858	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
São Tomé and Príncipe	Sao Tome (on Sao Tome)	Africa	N0.3360	E6.7311		141
Senegal	Dakar	Africa	N14.6953	W17.4439		37
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Africa	N8.4697	W13.2659		76
Somalia	Muqdisho / Mogadishu	Africa	N2.0411	E45.3426		28
South Africa	Johannesburg	Africa	S26.2044	E28.0456		1753
South Africa	Pretoria	Africa	S25.7463	E28.1876		1271
Sudan	Al Khartum / Khartoum	Africa	N15.6331	E32.5330		377
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
Western Sahara (MA)	Laayoune / El Aaiun	Africa	N27.1536	W13.2033		72
Australia	Canberra	Oceania	S35.2820	E149.1286		605
Australia	Sydney	Oceania	S33.8650	E151.2094	5,029,768	25
New Zealand	Wellington	Oceania	S41.2865	E174.7762		20
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Oceania	S9.4656	E147.1969		39

List of cities by elevation

See also