Embu County
Embu County is a county in the eastern Mt Kenya region in Kenya. As of 2024 its estimated population is 608,599 making it the 37th most populous county in Kenya.Photo: Muthoni Kibaara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: county of Kenya with 609,000 residents
- Description: county in Kenya
- Also known as: “Embu District”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gichiche and Gakwegore.
Gichiche
Village
The Eastern Province of Kenya was one of 8 Provinces of Kenya. Its northern boundary ran along with that of Ethiopia; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lay to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, ran along its western border. Gichiche is situated 6 km east of Embu County.
Gakwegore
Village
The Eastern Province of Kenya was one of 8 Provinces of Kenya. Its northern boundary ran along with that of Ethiopia; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lay to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, ran along its western border. Gakwegore is situated 6 km east of Embu County.
Gichera
Village
The Eastern Province of Kenya was one of 8 Provinces of Kenya. Its northern boundary ran along with that of Ethiopia; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lay to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, ran along its western border. Gichera is situated 8 km east of Embu County.
Embu County
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Embu County” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “እምቡ ስብስብ”
- Azerbaijani: “Embu Rayon”
- Bengali: “এম্বু কাউন্টি”
- Cebuano: “Embu (lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Embu”
- Chinese: “Embu Kūn”
- Chinese: “恩布郡”
- Dutch: “Embu County”
- Dutch: “Embu”
- Finnish: “Embun piirikunta”
- French: “comté d’Embu”
- French: “Comté d’Embu”
- German: “Embu County”
- German: “Embu District”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Embu”
- Indonesian: “County Embu”
- Italian: “contea di Embu”
- Italian: “Contea di Embu”
- Japanese: “エンブ (カウンティ)”
- Japanese: “エンブ”
- Japanese: “エンブ県”
- Javanese: “Kabupaten Embu”
- Kazakh: “Ембу округі”
- Kirghiz: “Ембу округу”
- Korean: “엠부현”
- Malay: “Daerah Embu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Embu Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Embu fylke”
- Norwegian: “Embu fylke”
- Oromo: “Gidda Embu”
- Panjabi: “ਐਂਬੂ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “شهرستان امبو”
- Polish: “Embu (hrabstwo)”
- Polish: “Embu”
- Portuguese: “Embu (condado)”
- Portuguese: “Embu”
- Pushto: “د امبو کاونټی”
- Russian: “Эмбу”
- Slovenian: “Embu County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Embu”
- Somali: “Gobolka Embu”
- Spanish: “Condado de Embu”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Embu”
- Swedish: “Embu (distrikt)”
- Swedish: “Embu”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Ембу”
- Tatar: “Ембу округы”
- Tumbuka: “Embu County, Kenya”
- Tumbuka: “Embu County”
- Urdu: “عمبو کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Embu tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Embu”
- Welsh: “Sir Embu”
- Zulu: “Embu County”
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