Isiolo
Isiolo is the capital of Kenya's Isiolo County. It is located near the country's geographical centre, 285 km north of Nairobi. The town grew around the local military camps.- Type: Town with 46,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Изиоло”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Isiolo Airport.
Isiolo
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Isiolo County, Eastern Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.35° or 0° 21′ north
Longitude
37.5833° or 37° 34′ 60″ east
Population
46,000
Elevation
1,095 metres (3,593 feet)
Open location code
6GGV8HXM+X8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Isiolo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إزيولو”
- Armenian: “Իսիոլո քաղաք”
- Asturian: “Isiolo”
- Catalan: “Isiolo”
- Cebuano: “Isiolo”
- Chinese: “伊西奥洛”
- Chinese: “伊西奧洛”
- Danish: “Isiolo”
- Dutch: “Isiolo”
- Esperanto: “Isiolo”
- Finnish: “Isiolo”
- French: “Isiolo”
- Georgian: “ისიოლო”
- German: “Isiolo”
- Italian: “Isiolo”
- Japanese: “イシオロ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Isiolo”
- Norwegian: “Isiolo”
- Persian: “ایزیولو، کنیا”
- Persian: “ایزیولو”
- Polish: “Isiolo”
- Pushto: “ايزيولو، کېنيا”
- Pushto: “ايزيولو”
- Romanian: “Isiolo”
- Russian: “Исиоло”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایزیولو، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایزیولو”
- Spanish: “Isiolo”
- Swahili: “Isiolo”
- Swedish: “Isiolo”
- Tumbuka: “Isiolo”
- Ukrainian: “Ізіоло”
- Ukrainian: “Ісіоло”
- Urdu: “ایسیولو”
- Uzbek: “Isiolo (okrug)”
- Uzbek: “Isiolo”
- Zulu: “Isiolo”
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