Kiambu
Kiambu is a major town and the capital of Kiambu County, located just north of Nairobi in Kenya. Sitting at a high elevation, it features a cool, lush climate and is deeply characterized by rolling green hills covered in sprawling tea and coffee plantations.- Town with 148,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,683 metres (5,522 feet)
- …is also known as “Kiambuu”
- Description: town in Kiambu County, Kenya
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ndumberi and Kangoya.
Kiambu
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Latitude
-1.1664° or 1° 9′ 59″ south
Longitude
36.8253° or 36° 49′ 31″ east
Open location code
6GCRRRMG+C4
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Zulu—“Kiambu” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kiambu”
- Cebuano: “Kiambu”
- Chinese: “基安布”
- Danish: “Kiambu”
- Dutch: “Kiambu”
- Finnish: “Kiambu”
- French: “Kiambu”
- Fulah: “Kiambu”
- Georgian: “კიამბუ”
- German: “Kiambu”
- Indonesian: “Kiambu”
- Irish: “Kiambu”
- Italian: “Kiambu”
- Japanese: “キアンブ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiambu”
- Norwegian: “Kiambu”
- Persian: “کیامبو”
- Polish: “Kiambu”
- Portuguese: “Kiambu”
- Romanian: “Kiambu”
- Russian: “Киамбу”
- Slovenian: “Kiambu”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیامبو”
- Spanish: “Kiambu”
- Swahili: “Kiambu”
- Swedish: “Kiambu”
- Urdu: “کیامبو”
- Zulu: “Kiambu”
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