Vihiga County
Vihiga District was an administrative district in the Western Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Mbale. The district had a population of 498,883 and an area of 563 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 590,000 residents
- Description: former district in Kenya
- Also known as: “Vihiga District” and “维希加县”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vihiga and Mutet.
Vihiga
Town
Vihiga is a town in Western Kenya. It is the main town of the Maragoli sub-tribe of the Luhya people.
Vihiga County
- Category: locality
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
0.0475° or 0° 2′ 51″ northLongitude
34.7235° or 34° 43′ 25″ eastPopulation
590,000Elevation
1,580 metres (5,184 feet)Open location code
6GGP2PWF+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 678388474OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7667638Wikidata ID
Q123179513
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Zulu—“Vihiga County” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Вихига”
- Catalan: “comtat de Vihiga”
- Cebuano: “Vihiga”
- Chinese: “維希加縣”
- Dutch: “Vihiga”
- French: “Vihiga”
- German: “Vihiga District”
- Indonesian: “County Vihiga”
- Italian: “Contea di Vihiga”
- Japanese: “ヴィヒガ”
- Korean: “비히가현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vihiga Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vihiga fylke”
- Persian: “شهرستان ویهیگا”
- Polish: “Vihiga”
- Russian: “Вихига”
- Spanish: “Condado de Vihiga”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Vihiga”
- Swedish: “Vihiga”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Віхіга”
- Urdu: “ویہیگا کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Vihiga”
- Zulu: “Vihiga County”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Vihiga Police Station and Chango.
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