Mount Suswa

Mount Suswa is a shield volcano in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. It is located between and , the capital of Kenya. The northwestern part of Mount Suswa is in , while the eastern and southern parts are in Kajiado County.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: shield volcano in Kenya
  • Also known as: Suswa crater
  • Address: Kaplong-Narok-Maai Road, Suswa

Mount Suswa

Latitude
-1.04949° or 1° 2′ 58″ south
Longitude
36.33349° or 36° 20′ 1″ east
Elevation
1,822 metres (5,978 feet)
Open location code
6GCRX82M+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1401342017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
179711
Wiki­data ID
Q3622751
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Mount Suswa” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: Ол Дойньо Нюкие
  • Bulgarian: Ол Дойньо Оньоке
  • Bulgarian: Сусва
  • Catalan: Suswa
  • Chinese: 蘇蘇瓦山
  • Dutch: Suswa-krater
  • Dutch: Suswa
  • French: mont Suswa
  • French: Mont Suswa
  • German: Suswa
  • Japanese: ススワ山
  • Ladin: Mount Suswa
  • Persian: کوه سوسوا
  • Slovak: Suswa
  • Slovenian: Mount Suswa
  • Spanish: Suswa
  • Swahili: Mlima Suswa
  • Swahili: Suswa
  • Ukrainian: Сусва (гора)
  • Ukrainian: Сусва

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Suswa”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.