Kenya
Southern Rift Valley
Embu County

Embu

Embu is in the region of . It is located on the south-eastern slopes of the massif.
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  • Type: Town with 41,100 residents
  • Description: city in Kenya
  • Also known as: “Embu, Kenya” and “Kirimari”

Embu

Latitude
-0.5377° or 0° 32′ 16″ south
Longitude
37.4584° or 37° 27′ 30″ east
Population
41,100
Elevation
1,336 metres (4,383 feet)
Open location code
6GFVFF65+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2454265197
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
198476
Wiki­data ID
Q186362
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Embu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إمبو، كينيا”
  • Arabic: “إمبو”
  • Asturian: “Embu”
  • Belarusian: “Эмбу”
  • Breton: “Embu”
  • Catalan: “Embu”
  • Cebuano: “Embu”
  • Chinese: “恩布”
  • Croatian: “Embu”
  • Dutch: “Embu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امبو”
  • Esperanto: “Embu”
  • Finnish: “Embu”
  • French: “Embu”
  • Georgian: “ემბუ”
  • German: “Embu”
  • Italian: “Embu”
  • Japanese: “エンブ”
  • Kikuyu: “Embu”
  • Lithuanian: “Embu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Embu”
  • Norwegian: “Embu”
  • Persian: “امبو، کنیا”
  • Persian: “امبو”
  • Polish: “Embu”
  • Portuguese: “Embu”
  • Romanian: “Embu, Kenya”
  • Romanian: “Embu”
  • Russian: “Эмба”
  • Russian: “Эмбу”
  • Serbian: “Ембу”
  • Slovenian: “Embu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امبو، کنیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امبو”
  • Spanish: “Embu”
  • Swahili: “Embu”
  • Swedish: “Embu”
  • Tagalog: “Embu”
  • Tumbuka: “Embu ,Kenya”
  • Tumbuka: “Embu, Kenya”
  • Ukrainian: “Ембу”
  • Urdu: “عمبو، کینیا”
  • Urdu: “عمبو”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Embu, Kenya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Embu”
  • Zulu: “Embu, Khenya”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Embu”. Photo: kikus, CC BY-SA 2.0.