Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in ; 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 , the second largest city in the Lake Victoria basin.
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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

Latitude
-0.1029° or 0° 6′ 11″ south
Longitude
34.7542° or 34° 45′ 15″ east
Population
410,000
Elevation
1,174 metres (3,852 feet)
IATA airport code
KIS
United Nations Location Code
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
  • 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.