Maragua
Maragua is a town in the Muranga County, Kenya. It was previously the capital of the former Maragua District. The town is located along Thika–Sagana road just 10 km south of Murang'a.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,600 residents
- Description: Kenyan town
- Also known as: “Maragua Station” and “Maragwa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maragua District and Murang’a.
Maragua District
Town
Maragua District was a former district of Kenya, located in the defunct Central Province. Its capital was the town of Maragua. In 1999, Maragua District had a population of 387,969 and an area of 868 km2.
Murang’a
Town
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Murang'a is a town in Murang'a County of Kenya. It is the administrative headquarters of Murang'a County and is mainly inhabited by the Kikuyu community. Murang’a is situated 8 km north of Maragua.
Maragua
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Murang’a District, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.79521° or 0° 47′ 43″ southLongitude
37.13228° or 37° 7′ 56″ eastPopulation
8,600Elevation
1,362 metres (4,469 feet)Open location code
6GFV643J+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1533090769OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
187733Wikidata ID
Q1892268
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Maragua” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Maragua”
- Chinese: “馬拉瓜”
- Dutch: “Maragua”
- German: “Maragua”
- Irish: “Maragua”
- Italian: “Maragua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maragua”
- Norwegian: “Maragua”
- Persian: “ماراگوئا، کنیا”
- Persian: “ماراگوئا”
- Polish: “Maragua”
- Portuguese: “Maragua”
- Portuguese: “Marágua”
- Spanish: “Maragua”
- Swahili: “Maragua, Kenya”
- Swahili: “Maragua”
- Swedish: “Maragua”
- Turkish: “Maragua”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Maragua”. Photo: François Bianco, CC BY-SA 2.0.