Turkana County
The Turkana District was an administrative district in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It was the northwesternmost district in the country and is bordered by Uganda to the west; South Sudan and Ethiopia to the north and northeast; and Lake Turkana to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: administrative territorial entity with 927,000 residents
- Description: former district of Kenya
- Also known as: “Turkana District”
Turkana County
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
3.2° or 3° 12′ northLongitude
35.4667° or 35° 28′ eastPopulation
927,000Elevation
516 metres (1,693 feet)Open location code
6GMQ6F28+2MGeoNames ID
178914Wikidata ID
Q122955732
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Turkana County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توركانا”
- Catalan: “Turkana”
- Cebuano: “Turkana”
- Chinese: “圖爾卡納郡”
- Dutch: “Turkana”
- Finnish: “Turkanan piirikunta”
- French: “Turkana”
- German: “Turkana District”
- Hebrew: “טורקנה”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Turkana”
- Italian: “Contea di Turkana”
- Japanese: “トゥルカナ”
- Korean: “투르카나현”
- Madurese: “Turkana”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Turkana Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkana”
- Persian: “شهرستان تورکانا”
- Polish: “Turkana”
- Russian: “Туркана”
- Spanish: “Condado de Turkana”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Turkana”
- Swedish: “Turkana”
- Urdu: “ترکانا کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Turkana”
- Welsh: “Sir Turkana”
- Zulu: “Turkana County”
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