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  2. Eldoret - Wikipedia

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    Eldoret is the fifth largest city in Kenya.In the Rift Valley region, it serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County.The town was referred to by white settlers as Farm 64 and colloquially by locals as 'Sisibo'.

  3. Uasin Gishu County - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .uasingishu .go .ke. Uasin Gishu County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in the former Rift Valley Province. Eldoret has the county's largest population centre as well as its administrative and commercial centre. [1] ". It lies between longitudes 34 degrees 50' east and 35 degrees 37' West and latitudes 0 degrees 03 ...

  4. Iten - Wikipedia

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    Iten [needs IPA] is a town in Elgeyo-Marakwet County in the Republic of Kenya. Iten serves as the capital and is the largest town in the county. The town is located along the road between Eldoret and Kabarnet at the junction of the road heading to Kapsowar. Elgeyo escarpment and Kerio River are located east of Iten. The growing town had a ...

  5. Eldoret International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Eldoret Airport, ( IATA: EDL, ICAO: HKEL ), is located in the city of Eldoret, in Uasin Gishu County, in midwestern Kenya, close to the international border with Uganda. Its location is approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi), by road, south of the central business district of Eldoret in Kapseret Ward. [2] This location lies approximately 269 ...

  6. Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya ( Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya ), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, [12] Kenya is the 28th-most-populous country in the world [7] and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second-largest city ...

  7. Kalenjin people - Wikipedia

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    Kenya African Democratic Union Eldoret Branch Starting in the 1940s, individuals from the various 'Nandi-speaking tribes' who had been drafted to fight in World War II (1939–1945) began using the term Kale or Kore (a term that denoted scarification of a warrior who had killed an enemy in battle) to refer to themselves.

  8. University of Eldoret - Wikipedia

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    University of Eldoret is one of the 22 public universities in Kenya [1] and situated approximately 9 km along the Eldoret-Ziwa road in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County. It was founded in 1946 by the white settlers as a Large Scale Farmers Training Centre. In 1984, it was converted to a teachers’ training college and renamed Moi Teachers ...

  9. Elgeyo-Marakwet County - Wikipedia

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    Time zone. UTC+3 ( EAT) Elgeyo-Marakwet County is one of Kenya 's 47 counties, which is located in the former Rift Valley Province with its capital and largest town as Iten. It borders the counties of West Pokot to the north, Baringo County to the east, southeast and south, Uasin Gishu to the southwest and west, and Trans Nzoia to the northwest.