Machakos
Machakos, also called Masaku, is a town in Machakos County, Kenya. Serving as the capital of the county, its urban population was 63,767 as of 2019.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 63,800 residents
- Description: municipality in Machakos County, Kenya
- Also known as: “Masaku”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roman Catholic Diocese of Machakos.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Machakos
Church
The Catholic Diocese of Machakos is a diocese located in the Town of Machakos in the ecclesiastical province of Nairobi in Kenya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isuvya.
Isuvya
Village
The Eastern Province of Kenya was one of 8 Provinces of Kenya. Its northern boundary ran along with that of Ethiopia; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lay to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, ran along its western border.
Machakos
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Machakos County, Southern Rift Valley, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.5196° or 1° 31′ 11″ southLongitude
37.2654° or 37° 15′ 56″ eastPopulation
63,800Elevation
1,619 metres (5,312 feet)Open location code
6GCVF7J8+45OpenStreetMap ID
way 677837974OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
188492Wikidata ID
Q693093
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Machakos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مشاكوس”
- Asturian: “Machakos”
- Bengali: “ম্যাকাকস”
- Breton: “Machakos”
- Catalan: “Machakos”
- Chinese: “馬查科斯”
- Chinese: “马查科斯”
- Corsican: “Machakos”
- Croatian: “Machakos”
- Danish: “Machakos”
- Dutch: “Machakos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مشاكوس”
- Esperanto: “Machakos”
- Finnish: “Machakos”
- French: “Machakos”
- Georgian: “მაჩაკოსი”
- German: “Machakos”
- Greek: “Ματσάκος”
- Gujarati: “મેંકાકોસ”
- Hebrew: “מצ’קוס”
- Hindi: “मचाकोस”
- Indonesian: “Machakos”
- Irish: “Machakos”
- Italian: “Machakos”
- Japanese: “マチャコス”
- Kalaallisut: “Machakos”
- Kannada: “ಮಚಕೋಸ್”
- Korean: “마차코스”
- Latvian: “Mačakosa”
- Lithuanian: “Mačakosas”
- Low German: “Machakos”
- Malay: “Machakos”
- Maori: “Machakos”
- Marathi: “मॅकाकोस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Machakos”
- Norwegian: “Machakos”
- Persian: “ماچاکوس، کنیا”
- Persian: “ماچاکوس”
- Polish: “Machakos”
- Portuguese: “Machakos”
- Romanian: “Machakos”
- Russian: “Мачакос”
- Russian: “Мачакосский”
- Serbian: “Mahakos”
- Serbian: “Махакос”
- Serbian: “Мачакос”
- Sinhala: “මචාකොස්”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماچاکوس، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماچاکوس”
- Spanish: “Machakos”
- Swahili: “Machakos”
- Swedish: “Machakos”
- Tahitian: “Machakos”
- Tamil: “மகாகோஸ்”
- Telugu: “మచాకోస్”
- Thai: “มาชาคอส”
- Turkish: “Machakos”
- Ukrainian: “Мачакос”
- Urdu: “ماچاکوس”
- Venetian: “Machakos”
- Vietnamese: “Machakos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Machakos”
- Zulu: “Machakos”
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