Gilgil
Gilgil is a town in Nakuru County, Kenya. The town is located between Naivasha and Nakuru and along the Nairobi - Nakuru highway. It is to the west of the Gilgil River, which flows south to feed Lake Naivasha.
- Type: Town with 60,700 residents
- Description: A town in Nakuru County, Kenya.
- Also known as: “Khirgil” and “Upper Gilgil”
Gilgil
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nyandarua County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.4978° or 0° 29′ 52″ south
Longitude
36.326° or 36° 19′ 34″ east
Population
60,700
Elevation
2,710 metres (8,891 feet)
Open location code
6GFRG82G+VC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Gilgil” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gilgil”
- Czech: “Gilgil”
- Danish: “Gilgil”
- Dutch: “Gilgil”
- Finnish: “Gilgil”
- French: “Gilgil”
- German: “Gilgil”
- Hebrew: “גילגיל”
- Irish: “Gilgil”
- Japanese: “ギルギル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilgil”
- Norwegian: “Gilgil”
- Polish: “Gilgil”
- Russian: “Гилгил”
- Swahili: “Gilgil”
- Swedish: “Gilgil”
- Ukrainian: “Гілгіл”
- Zulu: “Gilgil”
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