Marsabit County
Marsabit County is a county in Kenya, covering a surface area of 66,923.1 square kilometres. Marsabit is the second largest county by size in Kenya after Turkana county which has an area of 71,597.8 km2.
- Type: county of Kenya with 460,000 residents
- Description: county of Kenya
- Also known as: “condado de Marsabit”, “マーサビット郡”, and “マルサビット県”
Marsabit County
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
2.9667° or 2° 58′ north
Longitude
37.6° or 37° 36′ east
Population
460,000
Elevation
414 metres (1,358 feet)
Open location code
6GJVXH8X+MX
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Marsabit County” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማርሳቢት ስብስብ”
- Azerbaijani: “Marsabit Rayon”
- Bengali: “মার্সাবিট কাউন্টি”
- Catalan: “Marsabit”
- Cebuano: “Marsabit”
- Chinese: “馬薩比特郡”
- Dutch: “Marsabit County”
- Dutch: “Marsabit”
- Finnish: “Marsabitin piirikunta”
- French: “Comté de Marsabit”
- French: “Marsabit”
- German: “Marsabit County”
- German: “Marsabit District”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Marsabit”
- Indonesian: “County Marsabit”
- Italian: “contea di Marsabit”
- Italian: “Contea di Marsabit”
- Japanese: “マルサビット (カウンティ)”
- Japanese: “マルサビット”
- Javanese: “Kabupaten Marsabit”
- Kazakh: “Марсабит округі”
- Kirghiz: “Марсабит округу”
- Korean: “마르사비트현”
- Malay: “Daerah Marsabit”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marsabit Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marsabit fylke”
- Norwegian: “Marsabit fylke”
- Oromo: “Gidda Marsabit”
- Panjabi: “ਮਰਸਾਬਿਟ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “شهرستان مارسابیت”
- Polish: “Marsabit”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Marsabit”
- Pushto: “د مارسابت کاونټی”
- Russian: “Марсабит”
- Somali: “Gobolka Marsabit”
- Spanish: “Condado de Marsabit”
- Spanish: “Marsabit”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Marsabit”
- Swedish: “Marsabit”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Марсабит”
- Tatar: “Марсабит округы”
- Tumbuka: “Marsabit, Kenya”
- Urdu: “مارسابیت کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Marsabit tumani”
- Venetian: “contea de Marsabit”
- Vietnamese: “Marsabit”
- Welsh: “Sir Marsabit”
- Zulu: “Marsabit County”
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