Lodwar
Lodwar is a town of 83,000 people, and the capital of the Turkana District in the Northern Rift Valley region of Kenya.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mr.matija.kovac, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lodwar Airport.
Lodwar
- Type: Town with 83,000 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Turkana County, Northern Rift Valley, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
3.1166° or 3° 6′ 60″ northLongitude
35.6023° or 35° 36′ 8″ eastPopulation
83,000Elevation
500 metres (1,640 feet)IATA airport code
LOKUnited Nations Location Code
KE LOKOpen location code
6GMQ4J82+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 44931375OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
189280Wikidata ID
Q995707
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Ukrainian: “Лодвар”
- Urdu: “لودوار”
- Vietnamese: “Lodwar”
- Zulu: “Lodwar”
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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 “Lodwar”. Photo: Mr.matija.kovac, CC BY-SA 3.0.