Laikipia

Laikipia County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, located on the Equator in Northern Mount Kenya region. Laikipia is a cosmopolitan county and is listed as county number 31.
  • Type: county of Kenya with 519,000 residents
  • Description: county in Kenya
  • Also known as: Laikipia County” and “Laikipia District

Laikipia

Latitude
0.3333° or 0° 20′ north
Longitude
36.7667° or 36° 46′ east
Population
519,000
Elevation
1,785 metres (5,856 feet)
Open location code
6GGR8QM8+8M
Geo­Names ID
189794
Wiki­data ID
Q1800699
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Laikipia” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: ላይኪጵያ ስብስብ
  • Armenian: Լայկիպիա
  • Azerbaijani: Laikipia Rayon
  • Bengali: লাইকিপিয়া কাউন্টি
  • Bulgarian: Лаикипиа
  • Catalan: Comtat de Laikipia
  • Cebuano: Laikipia
  • Chinese: Laikipia Kūn
  • Chinese: 莱基皮亚郡
  • Chinese: 萊基皮亞郡
  • Dutch: Laikipia County
  • Dutch: Laikipia
  • Finnish: Laikipian piirikunta
  • French: Comté de Laikipia
  • French: Laikipia
  • German: Laikipia County
  • German: Laikipia Distrikt
  • Hausa: Gundumar Laikipia
  • Indonesian: County Laikipia
  • Italian: contea di Laikipia
  • Italian: Contea di Laikipia
  • Italian: Laikipia
  • Japanese: ライキピア (カウンティ)
  • Japanese: ライキピア
  • Javanese: Kabupaten Laikipia
  • Kazakh: Лайкипиа округі
  • Kirghiz: Лайкипиа округу
  • Korean: 라이키피아현
  • Malay: Daerah Laikipia
  • Min Nan Chinese: Laikipia Kūn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Laikipia fylke
  • Norwegian: Laikipia fylke
  • Oromo: Gidda Laikipia
  • Panjabi: ਲੈਕਿਪੀਆ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ
  • Persian: شهرستان لایکیپیا
  • Polish: Laikipia
  • Portuguese: Condado de Laikipia
  • Pushto: د لیکیپیا کاونټی
  • Russian: Лаикипия
  • Russian: Лайкипиа
  • Slovenian: Laikipia County
  • Slovenian: Laikipia District
  • Somali: Gobolka Laikipia
  • Spanish: Condado de Laikipia
  • Swahili: Kaunti ya Laikipia
  • Swahili: Wilaya ya Laikipia
  • Swedish: Laikipia (distrikt)
  • Swedish: Laikipia
  • Tajik: Ноҳияи Лайкипиа
  • Tatar: Лайкипиа округы
  • Ukrainian: Лайкіпія
  • Urdu: لائکی پیا کاؤنٹی
  • Uzbek: Laikipia tumani
  • Venetian: contea de Laikipia
  • Vietnamese: Laikipia
  • Welsh: Sir Laikipia
  • Zulu: Laikipia County

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