Nyahururu
Nyahururu is a town in Kenya, lying north east of Nakuru. Nyahururu means waterfall or windy or place of storms, in the Maasai language. It is located in both Laikipia County and Nyandarua counties.
- Town with 37,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 2,373 metres (7,785 feet)
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as“Nyahururu Falls”“Thompsons Falls”“Thomson’s Falls”“Thorason’s Falls”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thomson’s Falls.
Nyahururu
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Latitude
0.0333° or 0° 1′ 60″ north
Longitude
36.3666° or 36° 21′ 60″ east
Open location code
6GGR29M8+8J
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Nyahururu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نياهورورو”
- Catalan: “Nyahururu”
- Cebuano: “Nyahururu”
- Chinese: “尼亞胡魯魯”
- Danish: “Nyahururu”
- Dutch: “Nyahururu”
- Finnish: “Nyahururu”
- French: “Nyahururu”
- Georgian: “ნიაჰურურუ”
- German: “Nyahururu”
- Greek: “Νυαχουρούρου”
- Greek: “Τόμσον Φωλς”
- Hebrew: “ניהורורו”
- Irish: “Nyahururu”
- Italian: “Nyahururu”
- Japanese: “ニャフルル”
- Korean: “냐후루루”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyahururu”
- Norwegian: “Nyahururu”
- Persian: “نیاهورورو، کنیا”
- Persian: “نیاهورورو”
- Polish: “Nyahururu”
- Portuguese: “Nyahururu”
- Romanian: “Nyahururu”
- Spanish: “Nyahururu”
- Swahili: “Nyahururu”
- Swedish: “Nyahururu”
- Ukrainian: “Ньяхуруру”
- Urdu: “نیاہورورو”
- Zulu: “Nyahururu”
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