Iten
Iten{/itɛn/} is a town in Elgeyo-Marakwet County in the Republic of Kenya. It serves as the county's capital and is its largest urban center. The town is located along the road between Eldoret and Kabarnet at the junction of the road heading to Kapsowar at the western escarpment of the Gregory Rift at an altitude of 2400m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Iten
- Type: Town with 10,800 residents
- Description: town in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.66733° or 0° 40′ 2″ northLongitude
35.5057° or 35° 30′ 21″ eastPopulation
10,800Elevation
2,391 metres (7,844 feet)Open location code
6GGQMG84+W7OpenStreetMap ID
way 884307806OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7646405Wikidata ID
Q2987376
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Zulu—“Iten” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “伊滕”
- Danish: “Iten”
- Dutch: “Iten”
- Finnish: “Iten”
- French: “Iten”
- Galician: “Iten”
- German: “Iten”
- Hebrew: “איטן”
- Irish: “Iten”
- Italian: “Iten”
- Japanese: “イテン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iten”
- Norwegian: “Iten”
- Persian: “آیتن”
- Polish: “Iten”
- Russian: “Итен”
- Silesian: “Iten”
- South Azerbaijani: “آیتن”
- Spanish: “Iten”
- Swahili: “Iten”
- Swedish: “Iten”
- Urdu: “اتن”
- Zulu: “Iten”
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