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Kericho County

Kericho

Kericho is in Kericho County, on the edge of the Mau Forest within the highlands west of the East African Rift.
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Kericho

Latitude
-0.3666° or 0° 21′ 60″ south
Longitude
35.2833° or 35° 16′ 60″ east
Population
150,000
Elevation
2,002 metres (6,568 feet)
IATA airport code
KEY
United Nations Location Code
KE KEY
Open location code
6GFQJ7MM+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44992704
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
192900
Wiki­data ID
Q996730
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kericho” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيريشو”
  • Asturian: “Kericho”
  • Bengali: “কেরিকু”
  • Catalan: “Kericho”
  • Chinese: “凯里乔”
  • Chinese: “凱里喬”
  • Croatian: “Kericho”
  • Danish: “Kericho”
  • Dutch: “Kericho”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيريشو”
  • Esperanto: “Kericho”
  • Estonian: “Kericho”
  • Finnish: “Kericho”
  • French: “Kericho”
  • Georgian: “კერიჩო”
  • German: “Kericho”
  • Greek: “Κερίτσο”
  • Gujarati: “કેરીકો”
  • Hebrew: “קריצ’קו”
  • Hindi: “करीचो”
  • Indonesian: “Kericho”
  • Italian: “Kericho”
  • Japanese: “ケリチョ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರಿಚೊ”
  • Korean: “케리초”
  • Latvian: “Keričo”
  • Lithuanian: “Keričas”
  • Malay: “Kericho”
  • Marathi: “किरिको”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kericho”
  • Norwegian: “Kericho”
  • Persian: “کریچو، کنیا”
  • Persian: “کریچو”
  • Polish: “Kericho”
  • Portuguese: “Kericho”
  • Romanian: “Kericho”
  • Russian: “Керичо”
  • Sinhala: “කෙරිචෝ”
  • Spanish: “Kericho”
  • Swahili: “Kericho”
  • Swedish: “Kericho”
  • Tamil: “கேரிகோ”
  • Telugu: “కరిచో”
  • Thai: “เคริโช”
  • Turkish: “Kericho”
  • Ukrainian: “Керичо”
  • Urdu: “کیریچو”
  • Vietnamese: “Kericho”
  • Zulu: “Kericho”

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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 “Kericho”. Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.