Samburu County

Samburu County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province, which covers an area of roughly 21,000 km2 in northern where the Samburu, Turkana and many other tribes live.
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  • Type: county of Kenya with 310,000 residents
  • Description: county of Kenya
  • Also known as: “Lerata”, “Samburuland”, and “サンブル県”

Samburu County

Latitude
1.3333° or 1° 20′ north
Longitude
37.1167° or 37° 7′ east
Population
310,000
Elevation
939 metres (3,081 feet)
Open location code
6GHV84M8+8M
Geo­Names ID
180782
Wiki­data ID
Q2096419
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Samburu County” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳምቡሩ ስብስብ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Samburu Rayon”
  • Bengali: “সাম্বুরু কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Самбуру”
  • Cebuano: “Samburu”
  • Chinese: “桑布盧郡”
  • Dutch: “Samburu County”
  • Dutch: “Samburu”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Samburu”
  • Finnish: “Samburun piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Samburu”
  • French: “Comté de Samburu”
  • German: “Samburu County”
  • German: “Samburu District”
  • Hausa: “Gundumar Samburu”
  • Indonesian: “County Samburu”
  • Italian: “contea di Samburu”
  • Italian: “Contea di Samburu”
  • Japanese: “サンブル (カウンティ)”
  • Japanese: “サンブル”
  • Javanese: “Kabupaten Samburu”
  • Kazakh: “Самбуру округі”
  • Kirghiz: “Самбуру округу”
  • Korean: “삼부루현”
  • Malay: “Daerah Samburu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Samburu Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samburu fylke”
  • Norwegian: “Samburu fylke”
  • Oromo: “Gidda Samburu”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੰਬੁਰੂ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان سامبورو”
  • Polish: “Samburu (hrabstwo)”
  • Polish: “Samburu”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Samburu”
  • Pushto: “د سامبورو کاونټی”
  • Russian: “Самбуру”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Samburu”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Samburu”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Samburu”
  • Swahili: “Kaunti ya Samburu”
  • Swedish: “Samburu County”
  • Swedish: “Samburu”
  • Tajik: “Ноҳияи Самбуру”
  • Tatar: “Самбуру округы”
  • Urdu: “سامبورو کاؤنٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Samburu tumani”
  • Venetian: “contea de Samburu”
  • Vietnamese: “Samburu”
  • Welsh: “Sir Samburu”
  • Zulu: “Samburu County”

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