Mbita Point
Mbita Point is a town in the former province of Nyanza, Kenya, currently in Homa Bay County, on the shores of Lake Victoria. It is home to the Thomas Odhiambo campus of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rusinga Island.
Rusinga Island
Photo: Küchenkraut, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rusinga Island is on Lake Victoria in Western Kenya. Like the waters surrounding it, Rusinga is a mellow and relaxed place.
Mbita Point
- Type: Town with 6,100 residents
- Description: Kenyan town
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Homa Bay County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.42189° or 0° 25′ 19″ southLongitude
34.20759° or 34° 12′ 27″ eastPopulation
6,100Elevation
1,154 metres (3,786 feet)Open location code
6GFPH6H5+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 44928932OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
187028Wikidata ID
Q3130928
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Zulu—“Mbita Point” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Мбита”
- Cebuano: “Mbita”
- Dutch: “Mbita Point”
- French: “Mbita”
- Japanese: “ムビタ・ポイント”
- Polish: “Mbita Point”
- Spanish: “Mbita Point”
- Swahili: “Mbita Point”
- Swedish: “Mbita Point”
- Zulu: “Mbita Point”
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