Turkana County

Turkana County is a county in northwestern in the Northern Rift region. It is home to the Turkana people. It is Kenya's largest county by land area of 77,597.8 km.
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  • Type: county of Kenya with 927,000 residents
  • Description: county of Kenya
  • Also known as: “Turkana”

Turkana County

Latitude
3.2° or 3° 12′ north
Longitude
35.4667° or 35° 28′ east
Population
927,000
Elevation
516 metres (1,693 feet)
Open location code
6GMQ6F28+2M
Geo­Names ID
178914
Wiki­data ID
Q1633078
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Turkana County” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቱርካና ስብስብ”
  • Arabic: “توركانا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Turkana Rayon”
  • Bengali: “তুর্কানা কাউন্টি”
  • Catalan: “Turkana”
  • Cebuano: “Turkana”
  • Chinese: “Turkana Kūn”
  • Chinese: “圖爾卡納郡”
  • Danish: “Turkana”
  • Dutch: “Turkana County”
  • Dutch: “Turkana”
  • Finnish: “Turkanan piirikunta”
  • French: “Comté de Turkana”
  • French: “Turkana”
  • German: “Turkana County”
  • German: “Turkana District”
  • Hausa: “Gundumar Turkana”
  • Hebrew: “טורקנה”
  • Hindi: “तुर्काना काउंटी”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Turkana”
  • Italian: “Contea di Turkana”
  • Japanese: “トゥルカナ (カウンティ)”
  • Japanese: “トゥルカナ”
  • Japanese: “トゥルカナ地区”
  • Japanese: “トゥルカナ県”
  • Javanese: “Kabupaten Turkana”
  • Kazakh: “Туркана округі”
  • Kirghiz: “Туркана округу”
  • Korean: “투르카나현”
  • Malay: “Daerah Turkana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Turkana Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkana”
  • Norwegian: “Turkana fylke”
  • Oromo: “Gidda Turkana”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੁਰਕਾਨਾ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان تورکانا”
  • Polish: “Turkana (hrabstwo)”
  • Polish: “Turkana”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Turkana”
  • Pushto: “د ترکانا کاونټی”
  • Russian: “Туркана”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Turkana”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Turkana”
  • Swahili: “Kaunti ya Turkana”
  • Swedish: “Turkana”
  • Tajik: “Ноҳияи Туркана”
  • Tatar: “Туркана округы”
  • Urdu: “ترکانا کاؤنٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Turkana tumani”
  • Venetian: “contea de Turkana”
  • Vietnamese: “Turkana”
  • Welsh: “Sir Turkana”
  • Zulu: “Turkana County”
  • “Turkana County”

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