Busia
Busia is a town in Kenya. It is the capital and largest town of Busia County. Busia has about 52,000 residents and an elevation of 1,222 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 52,000 residents
- Description: town in Western Kenya
- Also known as: “Busia, Kenya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Busia Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Busia and Mbweka.
Busia
Busia is a border town in Uganda and Kenya. Legally, there is a Busia, Uganda, and an adjacent Busia, Kenya.Mbweka
Village
Mbweka is a settlement in Kenya's Busia County. Approximate population for 7 km radius from this point: 91,823… Mbweka is situated 4½ km east of Busia.
Busia
- Categories: city, border city, and locality
- Location: Busia County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
0.4644° or 0° 27′ 52″ northLongitude
34.1111° or 34° 6′ 40″ eastPopulation
52,000Elevation
1,222 metres (4,009 feet)United Nations Location Code
KE BUSOpen location code
6GGPF476+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 45006358OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Busia from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Busia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوسيا”
- Asturian: “Busia”
- Catalan: “Busia”
- Chinese: “布西亚”
- Chinese: “布西亞”
- Dutch: “Busia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوسيا”
- Finnish: “Busia (Kenia)”
- Finnish: “Busia”
- French: “Busia”
- Fulah: “Busia”
- Georgian: “ბუსია”
- German: “Busia”
- Indonesian: “Busia”
- Italian: “Busia”
- Japanese: “ブシア”
- Kikuyu: “Busia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Busia”
- Norwegian: “Busia”
- Persian: “بوسیا، کنیا”
- Persian: “بوسیا”
- Polish: “Busia”
- Portuguese: “Busia”
- Romanian: “Busia, Kenya”
- Romanian: “Busia”
- Russian: “Бусиа”
- Slovenian: “Busia”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوسیا، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوسیا”
- Spanish: “Busia”
- Swahili: “Busia, Kenya”
- Swahili: “Busia”
- Swedish: “Busia, Kenya”
- Swedish: “Busia”
- Tagalog: “Busia, Kenya”
- Tagalog: “Busia”
- Ukrainian: “Бусіа”
- Urdu: “بوسیا، کینیا”
- Urdu: “بوسیا”
- Zulu: “Busia, Khenya”
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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 “Busia”. Photo: LutzBruno, CC BY-SA 4.0.