Kakamega
Kakamega is a city of around 100,000 inhabitants in the Nyanza province in Western Kenya. It's a common starting point for trips to the nearby Kakamega Rainforest.
- City with about 91,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,560 metres (5,130 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code GGM
- Description: human settlement
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bukhungu Stadium and Kakamega School.
Bukhungu Stadium
Stadium
The Bukhungu Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kakamega, Kenya.
Kakamega School
School
Kakamega School, formerly known as Government African…
Kakamega
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Latitude
0.2833° or 0° 16′ 60″ north
Longitude
34.75° or 34° 45′ east
UN/LOCODE
KE KAK
Open location code
6GGP7QM2+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kakamega” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاكاميغا”
- Armenian: “Կակամեգա”
- Asturian: “Kakamega”
- Belarusian: “Какамега”
- Bengali: “কাকামেগা”
- Breton: “Kakamega”
- Catalan: “Kakamega”
- Cebuano: “Kakamega”
- Chinese: “卡卡梅加”
- Corsican: “Kakamega”
- Croatian: “Kakamega”
- Danish: “Kakamega”
- Dutch: “Kakamega”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاكاميجا”
- Esperanto: “Kakamega”
- Estonian: “Kakamega”
- Finnish: “Kakamega”
- French: “Kakamega”
- Georgian: “კაკამეგა”
- German: “Kakamega”
- Greek: “Κακαμέγκα”
- Gujarati: “કાકમેગા”
- Hindi: “काकामेगा”
- Indonesian: “Kakamega”
- Italian: “Kakamega”
- Japanese: “カカメガ”
- Kannada: “ಕಕಮೆಗ”
- Kikuyu: “Kakamega”
- Korean: “카카메가”
- Latvian: “Kakamega”
- Lithuanian: “Kakamega”
- Low German: “Kakamega”
- Malay: “Kakamega”
- Marathi: “काकमेगा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kakamega”
- Norwegian: “Kakamega”
- Persian: “کاکامگا، کنیا”
- Persian: “کاکامگا”
- Polish: “Kakamega”
- Portuguese: “Kakamega”
- Romanian: “Kakamega”
- Russian: “Какамега”
- Russian: “Какамеге”
- Serbian: “Какамега”
- Sinhala: “කාකමෙගා”
- Slovenian: “Kakamega”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاکامقا، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاکامقا”
- Spanish: “Kakamega”
- Swahili: “Kakamega”
- Swedish: “Kakamega”
- Tahitian: “Kakamega”
- Tamil: “ககாமிகா”
- Telugu: “కకమెగా”
- Thai: “คาคาเมก้า”
- Tumbuka: “Kakamega, Kenya”
- Turkish: “Kakamega, Kenya”
- Turkish: “Kakamega”
- Ukrainian: “Какамега”
- Urdu: “کاکامیجا”
- Urdu: “کاکامیگا”
- Uzbek: “Kakamega (okrug)”
- Uzbek: “Kakamega”
- Vietnamese: “Kakamega”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kakamega”
- Zulu: “Kakamega”
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Localities in the Area
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