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.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.
Mutet
Village
Mutet is a settlement in Kisumu county, Kenya. Mutet lies northeast of Gambogi, which itself is north of the city of Kisumu and eastern Lake Victoria. Kisumu county was formerly territory within the Nyanza Province before the 2010 Constitution of Kenya. Mutet is situated 6 km southeast of Vihiga County.
Vihiga County
- Description: former district in Kenya
- Also known as: “Vihiga District” and “维希加县”
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.072° or 0° 4′ 19″ northLongitude
34.712° or 34° 42′ 43″ eastPopulation
590,000Elevation
1,580 metres (5,184 feet)Open location code
6GGP3PC6+RQGeoNames ID
7667638Wikidata ID
Q123179513
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Vihiga County” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቪሂጋ ካውንቲ”
- Azerbaijani: “Vihiga Okruqu”
- Bengali: “ভিহিগা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Вихига”
- Catalan: “comtat de Vihiga”
- Cebuano: “Vihiga”
- Chinese: “維希加縣”
- Dutch: “Vihiga”
- French: “Vihiga”
- German: “Vihiga District”
- Hausa: “Vihiga County”
- Indonesian: “County Vihiga”
- Italian: “Contea di Vihiga”
- Japanese: “ヴィヒガ”
- Javanese: “Kabupaten Vihiga”
- Kazakh: “Вихига округі”
- Kirghiz: “Вихига Округу”
- Korean: “비히가현”
- Malay: “Daerah Vihiga”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vihiga Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vihiga fylke”
- Oromo: “Gidda Vihiga”
- Panjabi: “ਵਿਹਿਗਾ ਕਾਉਂਟੀ”
- Persian: “شهرستان ویهیگا”
- Polish: “Vihiga”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Vihiga”
- Pushto: “د ويهيګا ولايت”
- Russian: “Вихига”
- Somali: “Gobolka Vihiga”
- Spanish: “Condado de Vihiga”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Vihiga”
- Swedish: “Vihiga”
- Tajik: “Шахристони Вихига”
- Tatar: “Вихига округе”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Віхіга”
- Urdu: “ویہیگا کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Vihiga Okrugi”
- Vietnamese: “Vihiga”
- Zulu: “Vihiga County”
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