Mbale
Mbale is a town in Kenya and is the capital and largest town of Vihiga County. It is also called Maragoli, after the indigenous inhabitants of the area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: place in Kenya
- Also known as: “Mbale, Kenya”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vihiga and Mutet.
Vihiga
Town
Vihiga is a town in Western Kenya. It is the main town of the Maragoli sub-tribe of the Luhya people. Vihiga is situated 4 km south of Mbale.
Mutet
Village
Mutet is a settlement in Kenya's Nyanza Province. Mutet is situated 6 km southeast of Mbale.
Mbale
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vihiga County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.0835° or 0° 5′ 1″ northLongitude
34.7203° or 34° 43′ 13″ eastPopulation
60,000Elevation
1,628 metres (5,341 feet)Open location code
6GGP3PMC+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 10904862854OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
187113Wikidata ID
Q11000048
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Mbale” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mbale”
- Dutch: “Mbale”
- Finnish: “Mbale (Kenia)”
- Finnish: “Mbale”
- French: “Mbale (Kenya)”
- French: “Mbale”
- Irish: “Mbale”
- Swahili: “Mbale, Kenya”
- Swahili: “Mbale”
- Swedish: “Mbale”
- Zulu: “Mbale, Khenya”
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