Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in ; it is on a bay on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria at an elevation of 1,131 m. It is the headquarters of Kisumu County and after , the second largest city in the Lake Victoria basin.
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  • City with 410,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,174 metres (3,852 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KIS
  • Description: city in Kenya
  • Also known as
    “City of Kisii”
    “Kisii”
    “Kisumo”
    “Kisumu City”
    “Lady Whitehouse”
    “Port Florence”
    “Winam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aga Khan Hospital, Kisumu.
Established in 1952, the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu is a 76-bed acute care facility.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyalenda and Kondele.
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Kisumu

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Latitude
-0.1029° or 0° 6′ 11″ south
Longitude
34.7542° or 34° 45′ 15″ east
UN/LOCODE
KE KIS
Open location code
6GFPVQW3+RM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1868373176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
191245
Wiki­data ID
Q214485

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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”
  • Karekare: “Kisumu”
  • 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”
  • Tajik: “Кисуму”
  • 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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