Homa Bay
Homa Bay is a city in western Kenya located on the southern shore of Lake Victoria. It lies at an altitude of 1,131 m and is the headquarters of Homa Bay County. Its population is about 32,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Awino.
Homa Bay
- Type: Town with 32,200 residents
- Description: city in Kenya
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Homa Bay County, Western Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.5304° or 0° 31′ 49″ southLongitude
34.452° or 34° 27′ 7″ eastPopulation
32,200Elevation
1,165 metres (3,822 feet)Open location code
6GFPFF92+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 45001497OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
196742Wikidata ID
Q1009161
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Homa Bay” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خليج حوما”
- Asturian: “Homa Bay”
- Catalan: “Homa Bay”
- Cebuano: “Homa Bay”
- Chinese: “霍馬灣”
- Chinese: “霍马湾”
- Dutch: “Homa Bay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خليج حوما”
- Finnish: “Homa Bay”
- French: “Homa Bay”
- Fulah: “Homa”
- Georgian: “ჰომა-ბაი”
- German: “Homa Bay”
- Italian: “Homa Bay”
- Japanese: “ホマ・ベイ”
- Japanese: “ホマ湾”
- Korean: “호마베이”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Homa Bay”
- Norwegian: “Homa Bay”
- Persian: “هوما بی، کنیا”
- Persian: “هوما بی”
- Polish: “Homa Bay”
- Romanian: “Homa Bay”
- Russian: “Хома-Бей”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوما بی، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوما بی”
- Spanish: “Homa Bay”
- Swahili: “Homa Bay”
- Swedish: “Homa Bay”
- Urdu: “ہوما بے”
- Zulu: “Homa Bay”
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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 “Homa Bay”. Photo: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0.