Lodwar
Lodwar is a town of 83,000 people, and the capital of the Turkana District in the Northern Rift Valley region of Kenya.
- Town with 83,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 500 metres (1,640 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LOK
- Description: city
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lodwar Airport.
Lodwar
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Latitude
3.1166° or 3° 6′ 60″ north
Longitude
35.6023° or 35° 36′ 8″ east
UN/LOCODE
KE LOK
Open location code
6GMQ4J82+JW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Lodwar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لودوار”
- Asturian: “Lodwar”
- Bengali: “লোদওয়ার”
- Catalan: “Lodwar”
- Chinese: “洛德瓦尔”
- Chinese: “洛德瓦爾”
- Czech: “Lodwar”
- Danish: “Lodwar”
- Dutch: “Lodwar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لودوار”
- Finnish: “Lodwar”
- French: “Lodwar”
- Georgian: “ლოდვარი”
- German: “Lodwar”
- Hebrew: “לודוואר”
- Indonesian: “Lodwar”
- Italian: “Lodwar”
- Japanese: “ロドワル”
- Lithuanian: “Lodvaras”
- Macedonian: “Лодвар”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lodwar”
- Norwegian: “Lodwar”
- Persian: “لودوار”
- Polish: “Lodwar”
- Portuguese: “Lodwar”
- Romanian: “Lodwar”
- Russian: “Лодвар”
- Serbian: “Lodvar”
- Serbian: “Лодвар”
- Slovak: “Lodwar”
- South Azerbaijani: “لودوار”
- Spanish: “Lodwar”
- Swahili: “Lodwar”
- Swedish: “Lodwar”
- Tagalog: “Lodwar”
- Tumbuka: “Lodwar”
- Ukrainian: “Лодвар”
- Urdu: “لودوار”
- Vietnamese: “Lodwar”
- Zulu: “Lodwar”
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