Kericho County
Kericho was a district in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Its capital was Kericho. It had a population of 468,493 and an area of 2,111 km2. Kericho District traces its origins back to when the region was part of the Protectorate of Uganda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of Kenya with 902,000 residents
- Description: former district of Kenya
- Also known as: “Kericho District”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Ternan.
Fort Ternan
Village
Fort Ternan is a small town in Kericho County, Kenya, located 82 kilometres east of Kisumu and eleven kilometres east of Koru. It is named after Col. Trevor Ternan C.M.G.D.S.O. Fort Ternan is situated 9 km northwest of Kericho County.
Kericho County
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.273° or 0° 16′ 23″ southLongitude
35.383° or 35° 22′ 59″ eastPopulation
902,000Elevation
1,956 metres (6,417 feet)Open location code
6GFQP9GM+R6GeoNames ID
192898Wikidata ID
Q122872353
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Kericho County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kericho”
- Chinese: “凱里喬郡”
- Dutch: “Kericho”
- Finnish: “Kerichon piirikunta”
- German: “Kericho County”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kericho District”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Kericho”
- Indonesian: “County Kericho”
- Italian: “Contea di Kericho”
- Japanese: “ケリチョ”
- Korean: “케리초현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kericho Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kericho fylke”
- Persian: “شهرستان کریچو”
- Polish: “Kericho”
- Russian: “Керичо”
- Spanish: “Condado de Kericho”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Kericho”
- Swedish: “Kericho”
- Urdu: “کیریچو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Kericho”
- Welsh: “Sir Kericho”
- Zulu: “Kericho County”
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