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 Cherangani Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2,100 metres at the Eldoret International Airport to more than 2,700 metres in nearby areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Daryona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Daryona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 194,000 residents
- Description: Town in Kenya
- Also known as: “Home of Champions”, “Olderet”, “Olteret”, and “Sisibo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kipchoge Keino Stadium.
Kipchoge Keino Stadium
Stadium
Kipchoge Keino Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Eldoret, Kenya. It is named after the athlete Kipchoge Keino. It holds 10,000 people. In 2007, the Kenyan Government allocated KES100 million for the upgrade of the stadium, which had fallen into disrepair.
Eldoret
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Uasin Gishu County, Western Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
0.5198° or 0° 31′ 11″ northLongitude
35.2715° or 35° 16′ 18″ eastPopulation
194,000Elevation
2,095 metres (6,873 feet)IATA airport code
EDLUnited Nations Location Code
KE EDLOpen location code
6GGQG79C+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2689551456OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
198629Wikidata ID
Q322149
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Swahili: “Nyumbani kwa mabingwa”
- Swedish: “Eldoret (länshuvudort i Kenya)”
- Swedish: “Eldoret”
- Tagalog: “Eldoret”
- 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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