Wajir
Wajir is the capital of Wajir County of Kenya. It is situated in the former North Eastern Province. The district is primarily inhabitted by the Degodia followed by the ogaden and Ajuran.Photo: Alsandro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wajir
- Type: Town with 82,800 residents
- Description: city in Kenya
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Wajir County, Eastern Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
1.7505° or 1° 45' 2" northLongitude
40.0595° or 40° 3' 34" eastPopulation
82,800Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)IATA airport code
WJRUnited Nations Location Code
KE WJROpen Location Code
6HH2Q325+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 44914091OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
178443Wikidata ID
Q730791Wajir Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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: Wajir
- Norwegian Bokmål: Wajir
- Occitan (post 1500): Wajir
- Persian: واجیر، کنیا
- Polish: Wajir
- Pushto: واجير، کېنيا
- Romanian: Wajir
- Russian: Ваджир
- Somali: Wajeer
- South Azerbaijani: واجیر، کنیا
- Spanish: Wajir
- Swahili: Wajir
- Swedish: Wajir
- Ukrainian: Ваджир
- Urdu: واجیر
- Zulu: Wajir
- El Sadi
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In the Area
Wajir is situated close to the villages Johar and Afarshanle.
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Wajir. Photo: Alsandro, CC BY-SA 3.0.