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Eastern Kenya
Wajir County

Wajir

Wajir is the capital of in . It is situated in the former . Wajir has about 82,800 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 82,800 residents
  • Description: city in Kenya
  • Also known as: “El Sadi”

Wajir

Latitude
1.7505° or 1° 45′ 2″ north
Longitude
40.0595° or 40° 3′ 34″ east
Population
82,800
Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)
IATA airport code
WJR
United Nations Location Code
KE WJR
Open location code
6HH2Q325+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44914091
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
178443
Wiki­data ID
Q730791
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Wajir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وجير (مدينة )”
  • Arabic: “وجير”
  • Armenian: “Վաջիր”
  • Asturian: “Wajir”
  • Bulgarian: “Уаджир”
  • Bulgarian: “Уажир”
  • Catalan: “Wajir”
  • Cebuano: “Wajir”
  • Chinese: “瓦吉尔”
  • Chinese: “瓦吉爾”
  • Danish: “Wajir”
  • Dutch: “Wajir”
  • Finnish: “Wajir”
  • French: “Wajir”
  • Georgian: “ვაჯირი”
  • German: “Wajir”
  • Hebrew: “ואג’יר”
  • Italian: “Wajir”
  • Japanese: “ワジール”
  • Lithuanian: “Vadžiras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wajir”
  • Norwegian: “Wajir”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wajir”
  • Persian: “واجیر، کنیا”
  • Persian: “واجیر”
  • Polish: “Wajir”
  • Pushto: “واجير، کېنيا”
  • Pushto: “واجير”
  • Romanian: “Wajir”
  • Russian: “Ваджир”
  • Somali: “Wajeer”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واجیر، کنیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واجیر”
  • Spanish: “Wajir”
  • Swahili: “Wajir”
  • Swedish: “Wajir”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваджир”
  • Urdu: “واجیر”
  • Zulu: “Wajir”

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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 “Wajir”. Photo: Alsandro, CC BY-SA 3.0.