Kenya
Western Kenya
Trans-Nzoia County

Kitale

Kitale is a town in the north west of Kenya, in the former Rift Valley province, between and the Cherangany Hills. It has an elevation of around 1900 metres.
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  • Type: Town with 108,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Kataleel”
  • Address: Mumia Highway, Kitale

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kitale Museum.

Museum
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First opened in 1924 to the public, the is the first domestic museum opened in Kenya. Originally, it was known as the Stoneham Museum, named after Colonel Hugh Stoneham.

Kitale

Latitude
1.0181° or 1° 1′ 5″ north
Longitude
35.0002° or 35° 0′ 1″ east
Population
108,000
Elevation
1,900 metres (6,234 feet)
IATA airport code
KTL
United Nations Location Code
KE KTL
Open location code
6GHQ2292+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44933158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
191220
Wiki­data ID
Q523000
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Satellite Map

Discover Kitale from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kitale” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيتالي”
  • Asturian: “Kitale”
  • Bengali: “কিটেল”
  • Catalan: “Kitale”
  • Chinese: “基塔萊”
  • Croatian: “Kitale”
  • Danish: “Kitale”
  • Dutch: “Kitale”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيتالى”
  • Esperanto: “Kitale”
  • Estonian: “Kitale”
  • Finnish: “Kitale”
  • French: “Kitale”
  • Fulah: “Kitale”
  • Galician: “Kitale”
  • Georgian: “კიტალე”
  • German: “Kitale”
  • Greek: “Κιτάλε”
  • Gujarati: “કીટલ”
  • Hebrew: “קיטלה”
  • Hindi: “क़िताल”
  • Indonesian: “Kitale”
  • Italian: “Kitale”
  • Japanese: “キタレ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿತಾಲೆ”
  • Korean: “키탈레”
  • Latvian: “Kitale”
  • Lithuanian: “Kitalė”
  • Malay: “Kitale”
  • Marathi: “कीटल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kitale”
  • Norwegian: “Kitale”
  • Persian: “کیتاله، کنیا”
  • Persian: “کیتاله”
  • Polish: “Kitale”
  • Portuguese: “Kitale”
  • Romanian: “Kitale”
  • Russian: “Китале”
  • Sinhala: “කිටේල්”
  • Slovenian: “Kitale”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیتاله، کنیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیتاله”
  • Spanish: “Kitale”
  • Swahili: “Kitale”
  • Swedish: “Kitale”
  • Tamil: “கிடல்”
  • Telugu: “కిటాలే”
  • Thai: “คิตาลี”
  • Tumbuka: “Kitale, Kenya”
  • Turkish: “Kitale”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітале”
  • Urdu: “کیتالے”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitale”
  • Zulu: “Kitale”

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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 Wikipedia page “Kitale”. Photo: Leovdvxxx, CC BY-SA 4.0.