Bungoma
Bungoma town is the capital of Bungoma County in Kenya. It was established as a trading centre in the early 20th century. It is located in Kenya's fertile Western region and at the foot of Mount Elgon, Kenya's second-highest mountain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bungoma Airport.
Bungoma
- Type: Town with 60,000 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bungoma County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.5705° or 0° 34′ 14″ north
Longitude
34.5603° or 34° 33′ 37″ east
Population
60,000
Elevation
1,427 metres (4,682 feet)
Open location code
6GGPHHC6+64
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Bungoma” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bungoma”
- Catalan: “Bungoma”
- Chinese: “奔戈馬”
- Chinese: “奔戈马”
- Danish: “Bungoma”
- Dutch: “Bungoma”
- Esperanto: “Bungoma”
- Finnish: “Bungoma”
- French: “Bungoma”
- Fulah: “Bungoma”
- Georgian: “ბუნგომა”
- German: “Bungoma”
- Italian: “Bungoma”
- Japanese: “ブンゴーマ”
- Japanese: “ブンゴマ”
- Kikuyu: “Bungoma”
- Lithuanian: “Bungoma”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bungoma”
- Norwegian: “Bungoma”
- Panjabi: “ਬੁੰਗੋਮਾ”
- Persian: “بونگوما، کنیا”
- Persian: “بونگوما”
- Polish: “Bungoma”
- Portuguese: “Bungoma”
- Pushto: “بنګوما”
- Romanian: “Bungoma”
- Russian: “Бунгома”
- Somali: “Bungoma”
- South Azerbaijani: “بونقوما، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “بونقوما”
- Spanish: “Bungoma”
- Swahili: “Bungoma”
- Swedish: “Bungoma”
- Tajik: “Бунгома”
- Tatar: “Бунгома”
- Ukrainian: “Бунгома”
- Urdu: “بونگوما”
- Zulu: “Bungoma”
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