Wajir
Wajir is the capital of Wajir County in Kenya. It is situated in the former North Eastern Province. Wajir has about 82,800 residents.- Type: Town with 82,800 residents
- Description: city in Kenya
- Also known as: “El Sadi”
Wajir
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Wajir County, Eastern Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Tumbuka: “Wajir”
- Ukrainian: “Ваджир”
- Urdu: “واجیر”
- Zulu: “Wajir”
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