Migingo Island
Migingo is an island on Lake Victoria in Kenya. At only 2,000 m2, it is extremely densely populated. The island has been a low-level territorial dispute between Kenya and Uganda. Migingo's location makes it useful for Kenyan and Ugandan fishermen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Usingo Island and Pyramid Island.
Usingo Island
Islet
Usingo Island is a small lake island in Kenya, which is located in Migori County, in Lake Victoria.
Pyramid Island
Island
Pyramid Island is a Kenyan island whose westernmost point is used to demarcate the border between Kenya and Uganda just north of the 1st degree south parallel in Lake Victoria.
Migingo Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island
- Categories: island, disputed territory, locality, and landform
- Location: Homa Bay County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.88275° or 0° 52′ 58″ southLongitude
33.93854° or 33° 56′ 19″ eastPopulation
400Elevation
1,134 metres (3,720 feet)Open location code
6GFM4W8Q+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 488350000OpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
8605133Wikidata ID
Q1568935
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Satellite Map
Discover Migingo Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Migingo Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Migingo”
- Azerbaijani: “Miqinqo”
- Bengali: “মিগিঙ্গো দ্বীপ”
- Catalan: “Migingo”
- Cebuano: “Migingo Island”
- Chinese: “米金戈岛”
- Chinese: “米金戈島”
- Dutch: “Migingo Island”
- French: “Migingo”
- German: “Migingo”
- Hebrew: “מיגינגו”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Migingo”
- Italian: “Migingo”
- Japanese: “ミギンゴ”
- Japanese: “ミギンゴ島”
- Kirghiz: “Мгинго аралы”
- Korean: “미징고섬”
- Polish: “Migingo”
- Portuguese: “Migingo”
- Russian: “Мигинго”
- Spanish: “Isla Migingo”
- Spanish: “Migingo”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Migingo”
- Swedish: “Migingo Island”
- Turkish: “Migingo Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Мігінго”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Migingo”
- “Migingo”
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