Eldoret
Eldoret is a city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Located in western Kenya and lying south of the Cherang'any Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2,100 metres at the Eldoret International Airport to more than 2,700 metres in nearby areas.- Type: City with 476,000 residents
- Description: Town in Kenya
- Also known as: “Eldoret (länshuvudort i Kenya)”, “Home of Champions”, “Nyumbani kwa mabingwa”, “Olderet”, “Olteret”, and “Sisibo”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kipchoge Keino Stadium.
Eldoret
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Uasin Gishu County, Western Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.5198° or 0° 31′ 11″ north
Longitude
35.2715° or 35° 16′ 18″ east
Population
476,000
Elevation
2,095 metres (6,873 feet)
IATA airport code
EDL
UN/LOCODE
KE EDL
Open location code
6GGQG79C+WJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Eldoret” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eldoret”
- Arabic: “إلدورت”
- Arabic: “إلدوريت”
- Armenian: “Էլդորետ”
- Asturian: “Eldoret”
- Basque: “Eldoret”
- Belarusian: “Элдарэт”
- Bengali: “এলদোরেত”
- Bulgarian: “Елдорет”
- Catalan: “Eldoret”
- Cebuano: “Eldoret”
- Chinese: “埃尔多雷特”
- Chinese: “埃爾多雷特”
- Croatian: “Eldoret”
- Czech: “Eldoret”
- Danish: “Eldoret”
- Dutch: “Eldoret”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدوريت”
- Esperanto: “Eldoret”
- Estonian: “Eldoret”
- Finnish: “Eldoret”
- French: “Eldoret”
- Galician: “Eldoret”
- Georgian: “ელდორეტი”
- German: “Eldoret”
- Greek: “Ελντορέτ”
- Gujarati: “એલ્ડોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “אלדורט”
- Hindi: “एलडोरेट”
- Hungarian: “Eldoret”
- Indonesian: “Eldoret”
- Irish: “Eldoret”
- Italian: “Eldoret”
- Japanese: “エルドレット”
- Kalaallisut: “Eldoret”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ಡೋರೆಟ್”
- Kikuyu: “Eldoret”
- Korean: “엘도레트”
- Latvian: “Eldoreta”
- Lithuanian: “Eldoretas”
- Malay: “Eldoret”
- Maori: “Eldoret”
- Marathi: “एल्डरोट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldoret”
- Norwegian: “Eldoret”
- Persian: “الدورت، کنیا”
- Persian: “الدورت”
- Polish: “Eldoret”
- Portuguese: “Eldoret”
- Romanian: “Eldoret”
- Russian: “Элдорет”
- Russian: “Эльдорет”
- Scots: “Eldoret”
- Serbian: “Eldoret”
- Serbian: “Елдорет”
- Silesian: “Eldoret”
- Sinhala: “එල්ඩොරේට්”
- Slovenian: “Eldoret”
- South Azerbaijani: “الدورت، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “الدورت”
- Spanish: “Eldoret”
- Swahili: “Eldoret”
- Swedish: “Eldoret”
- Tagalog: “Eldoret”
- Tajik: “Элдорет”
- Tamil: “எல்டோரெட்”
- Telugu: “ఎల్డోర్ట్”
- Thai: “เอลโดเรต”
- Tumbuka: “Eldoret”
- Turkish: “Eldoret”
- Ukrainian: “Елдорет”
- Ukrainian: “Ельдорет”
- Urdu: “الدورت”
- Venetian: “Eldoret”
- Vietnamese: “Eldoret”
- Waray (Philippines): “Eldoret”
- Zulu: “Eldoret”
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