Marua
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- Type: Village
- Description: town in Kenya
- Also known as: “Marũa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kiganjo and Karatina.
Kiganjo
Village
Kiganjo is a small town in Kenya's Nyeri county. It hosts the Kenya Police College which is Kenya's main college for police training. Kiganjo also hosts one of the Kenya Cooperative Creameries KCC and a milk depot for the Brookside Milk Company. Kiganjo is situated 8 km northwest of Marua.
Karatina
Town
Karatina is a town in Nyeri County, Kenya which hosts a municipal council and serves as the headquarters of Mathira East subcounty. Karatina municipality had a total population of 6,852, all classified as urban in the 1999 census It has six electoral wards, all in the Mathira Constituency; the remaining five wards of Mathira constituency represent Nyeri County Council. Karatina is situated 10 km east of Marua.
Marua
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nyeri County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.45303° or 0° 27′ 11″ southLongitude
37.04442° or 37° 2′ 40″ eastElevation
1,633 metres (5,358 feet)Open location code
6GFVG2WV+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 8687792395OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Marua” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Marua”
- Irish: “Marua”
- Kikuyu: “Marũa”
- Spanish: “Marua”
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