Kisumu
Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya; located on a bay on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria at an altitude of 1,131 m. It is the headquarters of Kisumu County and after Kampala, the second largest city in the Lake Victoria basin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 410,000 residents
- Description: city in Kenya
- Also known as: “City of Kisii”, “Kisii”, “Kisumo”, “Kisumu City”, “Lady Whitehouse”, “Port Florence”, and “Winam”
Kisumu
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kisumu County, Western Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.1029° or 0° 6′ 11″ southLongitude
34.7542° or 34° 45′ 15″ eastPopulation
410,000Elevation
1,174 metres (3,852 feet)IATA airport code
KISUnited Nations Location Code
KE KISOpen location code
6GFPVQW3+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1868373176OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
191245Wikidata ID
Q214485
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kisumu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيزيمو”
- Armenian: “Կիսումու”
- Armenian: “Քիսի”
- Armenian: “Քիսումու քաղաք”
- Armenian: “Քիսումու”
- Armenian: “Ֆլորենս նավահանգիստ”
- Asturian: “Kisumu”
- Basque: “Kisumu”
- Belarusian: “Кісуму”
- Bengali: “কিসুমু”
- Breton: “Kisumu”
- Bulgarian: “Кисуму”
- Catalan: “Kisumu”
- Cebuano: “Kisumu (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Kisumu”
- Chinese: “基苏木”
- Chinese: “基蘇木”
- Croatian: “Kisumu”
- Czech: “Kisumu”
- Danish: “Kisumu”
- Dutch: “Kisumu”
- Dutch: “Port Florence”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيزيمو”
- Esperanto: “Kisumu”
- Finnish: “Kisumu”
- French: “Kisumu”
- Georgian: “კისუმუ”
- German: “Kisumu”
- German: “Port Florence”
- Greek: “Κισούμου”
- Gujarati: “કિસુમુ શહેર”
- Hausa: “Kisumu”
- Hebrew: “קיסומו”
- Hindi: “किसुमु”
- Hungarian: “Kisumu”
- Iban: “Kisumu”
- Icelandic: “kisumu”
- Ido: “Kisumu”
- Indonesian: “Kisumu”
- Irish: “Kisumu”
- Italian: “Kisumu”
- Japanese: “キスム”
- Kalaallisut: “Kisumu”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಸುಮು ನಗರ”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಸುಮು”
- Kikuyu: “City of Kisumu”
- Kikuyu: “Kisumu”
- Korean: “키수무”
- Latvian: “Kisumu”
- Lithuanian: “Kisumu”
- Madurese: “Kisumu”
- Malay: “City of Kisumu”
- Maori: “Kisumu”
- Marathi: “किसुमु शहर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisumu”
- Norwegian: “Kisumu”
- Persian: “کیسومو، کنیا”
- Persian: “کیسومو”
- Polish: “Kisumu”
- Portuguese: “Kisumu”
- Romanian: “Kisumu”
- Russian: “Кисуму”
- Santali: “ᱠᱤᱥᱩᱢᱩ”
- Scots: “Kisumu”
- Serbian: “Kisumu”
- Serbian: “Кисуму”
- Silesian: “Kisumu”
- Sinhala: “කිසුමු නගරය”
- Slovak: “Kisumu”
- Slovenian: “Kisumu”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیسومو، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیسومو”
- Spanish: “Kisumu”
- Swahili: “City of Kisumu”
- Swahili: “Kisumu City”
- Swahili: “Kisumu”
- Swedish: “Kisumu”
- Tagalog: “Kisumu”
- Tamil: “கிசுமு நகரம்”
- Telugu: “కిసుము”
- Thai: “คิซูมู”
- Tumbuka: “Kisumu”
- Turkish: “Kisumu”
- Ukrainian: “Кісуму”
- Urdu: “کسیمو”
- Venetian: “Kisumu”
- Vietnamese: “Kisumu”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Kisumu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kisumu”
- Western Frisian: “Kisumu”
- Zulu: “Kisumu”
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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 “Kisumu”. Photo: DEMOSH, CC BY 2.0.