Uasin Gishu County
Uasin Gishu County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in the former Rift Valley Province. Eldoret city has the county's largest population centre as well as its administrative and commercial centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kipchoge Keino Stadium.
Kipchoge Keino Stadium
Stadium
Kipchoge Keino Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Eldoret, Kenya. It is named after the athlete Kipchoge Keino. It holds 10,000 people. In 2007, the Kenyan Government allocated KES100 million for the upgrade of the stadium, which had fallen into disrepair. Kipchoge Keino Stadium is situated 5 km northwest of Uasin Gishu County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eldoret.
Eldoret
Photo: Daryona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eldoret is a city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Located in western Kenya and lying south of the Cherangani Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2,100 metres at the Eldoret International Airport to more than 2,700 metres in nearby areas.
Uasin Gishu County
- Type: county of Kenya with 1,160,000 residents
- Description: county of Kenya
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Zulu—“Uasin Gishu County” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Uazin-Qişu”
- Basque: “Uasin Gishu konderria”
- Cebuano: “Uasin Gishu”
- Chinese: “Uasin Gishu Kūn”
- Chinese: “瓦辛基苏郡”
- Chinese: “瓦辛基蘇郡”
- Dutch: “Uasin Gishu County”
- Dutch: “Uasin Gishu”
- Finnish: “Uasin Gishun piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Uasin Gishu”
- French: “Comté de Uasin Gishu”
- Galician: “Condado de Uasin Gishu”
- German: “Uasin Gishu County”
- German: “Uasin Gishu District”
- Hebrew: “מישור גואס נגישו”
- Indonesian: “County Uasin Gishu”
- Italian: “contea di Uasin Gishu”
- Italian: “Contea di Uasin Gishu”
- Japanese: “ウアシン・ギシュ (カウンティ)”
- Japanese: “ウアシン・ギシュ”
- Japanese: “ウアシンギシュ県”
- Japanese: “リフトバレー州”
- Korean: “우아신기슈현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Uasin Gishu Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uasin Gishu fylke”
- Norwegian: “Uasin Gishu fylke”
- Persian: “شهرستان یوسین گیشو”
- Persian: “یوسین گیشو”
- Polish: “Uasin Gishu”
- Russian: “Уазин-Гишу”
- Russian: “Уасин-Гишу”
- Slovenian: “Uasin Gishu”
- Spanish: “Condado de Uasin Gishu”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Uasin Gishu”
- Swedish: “Uasin Gishu”
- Ukrainian: “Уасін-Гішу (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Уасін-Гішу”
- Urdu: “یواسین گیشو کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “یواسین گیشو گاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Uasin Gishu”
- Vietnamese: “Uasin Gishu”
- Zulu: “Uasin Gishu County”
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Notable Places Nearby
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