Talk:List of countries by average elevation

should median height be added? Averages are easily affected by outliers, especially for countries who might have a few very high mountains but are otherwise lower altitude.

Missing Countries
Missing Countries: (based on comparison with the list of United Nations Countries [], I generated a list of missing countries. Such nations are needed if one wants to make such basic queries as ‘What countries will be inundated with a(n) # meter sea level rise?’ Missing nations include: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Barbados, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Comoros, Dominica (not the Dominican Republic), Fiji, Grenada, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Malta, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Timor Leste (East Timor), Tonga, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, and Vanuatu. Individuals using this data will be missing entire countries. I suspect the source data was not originally designed to be comprehensive. A new data source is likely required. Present country queries will miss low elevation omissions from the list, among other relevant query omissions. (Dependencies would also be missed, but they are not countries. You could list them if time permits, but they are not sovereign nations, the target of the URL.) Relevant queries, such as Tonga, would lead one to reject the source, Wikipedia, as useless. This needs a fix. Elevation sources also exist: See CIA World Factbook: Field Listing Elevations. Edward F Collins (talk) 05:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC) Edward F Collins (talk) 05:26, 18 February 2020 (UTC) Best wishes, Edward — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edward F Collins (talk • contribs) 06:04, 17 February 2020 (UTC) Edward F Collins (talk) 06:13, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Errors in data
i think that it is impossible that the averige elevetion of cyprus is only 9 m, the surfase is covered with many hills above 500 m131.211.64.198 (talk) 12:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Does seem wrong. Portland State University Country Geography Data seems to be incorrect in this case.  Is there any other source or way to calculate it? Andynct (talk) 20:31, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * We could (re)calculate the average from public SRTM height data. Based on this elevation map, I would guess the average is around 300-400m. Junuxx (talk) 15:42, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

There seem to be a lot of errors in this data set. For instance, it lists the average elevation of Jamaica as 18 m which is impossible. It is mostly fairly high plateaus, and this site: http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Americas/Jamaica-TOPOGRAPHY.html#ixzz3ndjUecDV lists the average elevation as 450 m. That is much more believable and not within the margin of error. Cyprus is also clearly false just from looking at a topographical map and other sources list the average elevation of the Netherlands as 11 m. That seems like a more accurate number than 30 m, since not much of the country is >30 m above sea level, and a great deal is below sea level, as can be seen in any topographical map http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xffg04EfflY/U60fUdD5qKI/AAAAAAAATPo/749OjOcKCsE/s1600/Netherlands+-+combined.png 76.120.250.247 (talk) 05:08, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree. The article needs to be comprehensively checked against more reliable data.   It is worrying that the editor who added much of the information has made some clearly false edits on other articles.   In the meantime, I'll add some tags to warn readers.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:29, 16 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Very kind words. Yes, I've made one false edit out of hundreds contributions. What is more worrying here is that the university source that I used for this article seems to be an unreliable one. You can see for yourself. Have a nice day and good luck. ShockD (talk) 14:48, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

It's the same with India. It's certainly wrong. It does not impossible that avarage height of surface in this country is only 160 m. I'am sure it's much higher.

Some countries are missing, Monaco for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.72.129 (talk) 06:17, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

List from highest to lowest
It would be nice to see a second list, ordering the countries by average elevation rather than by alphabetical order. I don't know how to automate this or I'd do it myself. Loraof (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You can sort the list by elevation just by clicking on the arrows at the top of the column. Andynct (talk) 21:04, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Just not on mobile, for some inexplicable reason. Mfedder (talk) 04:23, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Continents
I would like to see a small section added that shows the average elevaton of continents, perhaps with the article then moved to List of countries and continents by average elevation. Un sch  ool  03:52, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Good idea, but I think avg. elevation could be added to Continent with a link here in "See also". Facts707 (talk) 13:25, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Change data to CIA World Factbook Data
In my opinion we should change the elevation values to those given by the CIA World Factbook. See. The Factbook is a more reliable source, its data is accessible to everyone unlike the data from Portland State Uni and it has data for every country in the world and does not leave out countries such as Bhutan. -- Isidor Welti (talk) 10:58, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Complete overhaul needed
I came here looking for the average elevation of Bolivia. Wasn't here. Found a major act of deletion vandalism from last month. Reverted it. Bolivia still not here. Decided to go to the source used to create this, some site at Portland State University. But it's not a public site.

This list is necessary, but it's so effed up that it's literally worse than no article at all. Needs a complete makeover, and I would suggests a public source, such as the CIA factbook. I wish I had the time to do it right now. Maybe at Christmas. Unschool 15:44, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

FromCzech is vandalising
When I changed Vietnams elevation to 400 meters, He changed it back to 398 without a fucking reason, Ofc I checked in the CIA factbook and it's now 400 meters. HehehehaJa12 (talk) 06:49, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * CIA factbook: 398 m. Other sources, including the cited one: 398 m. FromCzech (talk) 07:38, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Kiddo, I saw Vietnam's elevation is 400m but it's in the VIetnam's website and it's only avaliable in this country FromCzech78 (talk) 06:49, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Come on idiot reply me, Vietnam's average elevation is 400 meters, Also why are you fucking crying over a country's average elevation is added only 2 meters high? Bro we didn't even say that it's more than "999,999" meters, So don't cry kid. FromCzech78 (talk) 07:46, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Merge country elevation tables/articles
Elevation averages should be another column in the table in List of elevation extremes by country to have all country elevation data in one place Myroon5 (talk) 14:50, 3 July 2024 (UTC)