The provinces of Kenya
Kenya comprises eight provinces, the provinces are divided into districts and the districts are divided into locations and sub locations. The city of Nairobi has the status of the administrative province.
It covers the area around Nyeri on south-west of the Mount Kenya with an area of 13,191 square kilometers, with the capital Nyeri, has 12 districts and is one of the biggest producers and exporters of coffee.
History
Most of the communities that inhabit the Central Province is made up of the ethnic groups Agikuyu, Aembu and Meru. It is believed that part of eastern Bantu migrated to the region in the seventeenth century. During the white colonization of Kenya, most of the province was seen as part of the ''White Highlands'' and for the exclusive use by the community of settlers. This has been the subject of political activity of the local community who believed that they have an ancestral right to the land. Culminated in the'50s with the Mau Mau rebellion which saw the region under a state of emergency and the arrest of many political leaders.
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The districts are:
- Gatundu – with administrative centre at Ol Kalou
- Kiambu East – with administrative centre at Kiambu
- Kiambu West – with administrative centre at Limuru
- Kirinyaga – with administrative centre at Kerugoya
- Maragua – with administrative centre at Maragua
- Murang'a North – with administrative centre at Murang'a
- Murang'a South – with administrative centre at Kenol Trading Centre
- Nyandarua North – with administrative centre at Nyahururu
- Nyandarua South – with administrative centre at Engineer Trading Centre
- Nyeri North – with administrative centre at Chaka
- Nyeri South – with administrative centre at Nyeri
- Thika – with administrative centre at Thika
Attractions
Cities:
How to get there
- By car: Highway A2 Nairobi-Moyabe, the roads B5 e B6
- By train: towns reached by railway lines are: Nyeri, Thika and Murang'a
- By air: the airoport of Nyeri and the Bob Harris airport of Thika.
Along the Indian Ocean with an area of 83,603 square kilometers and the capital to Mombasa, has 13 districts and has tourist centers on the beaches with white sand.
History
Due to its geographical position, was invaded by Portuguese, lived naval battles with Oman and the Arabs and knew the slave trade. One of his town, Malindi, is famous for having received the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498.
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The districts are:
- Kaloleni - with administrative centre at Kizurini
- Kilifi - with administrative centre at Kilifi
- Kilindini – with administrative centre at Dongo Kundu
- Kinango – with administrative centre at a Kinango
- Kwalw – with administrative centre at Kwale
- Lamu – with administrative centre at Lamu
- Malindi – with administrative centre at Malindi
- Mombasa – with administrative centre at Mombasa
- Msabweni – with administrative centre at Msabweni
- Taita – with administrative centre at Wundanyi
- Tana Delta
- Tana River – with administrative centre at Hola
- Taveta – with administrative centre at Taveta
Attractions
Cities:
How to get there:
- By car: highways A23 Voi-Taveta, A14 Mombasa-Tanzania, A109 Mombasa-Nairobi, B8 Mombassa-Garissa.
- By train: towns reached by railway lines are: Mombasa and Taveta.
- By air: the airports Kilifi Plantation Farm of Kilfi, Lamu/Manda of Lamu, Malindi, Moi of Mombasa, Hola, Sisal and Taveta.
- By boat: Kalindini Port of Mombasa.
Bordered to the north with Ethiopia, at east and south with the North-Eastern Province and Coast Province and at west with the Central Province, Nairobi Province and Rift Valley Province, with an area of 159,891 square kilometers, and the capital at Embu, has 26 districts. It is mainly inhabited by the Kamba and other pastoral communities.
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The districts are:
- Chalbi – with administrative centre at Maikona
- Embu – with administrative centre at Embu
- Garbatula – with administrative centre at Garba Tula
- Igembe – with administrative centre at Maua
- Imenti North – with administrative centre at Meru
- Imenti South – with administrative centre at Nkubu
- Isiolo – with administrative centre at Isiolo
- Kangundo – with administrative centre at Kangundo
- Kibwezi – with administrative centre at Makueni
- Kitui – with administrative centre at Kitui
- Kyuso - with administrative centre at Kyuso
- Laisamis - with administrative centre at Korr
- Machakos - with administrative centre at Machakos
- Makueni - with administrative centre at Wote
- Marsabit - with administrative centre at Marsabit
- Mbeere - with administrative centre at Siakago
- Mbooni
- Meru Central - with administrative centre at Gatimbi
- Meru South (Nithi) - with administrative centre at Chuka
- Moyale - with administrative centre at Moyale
- Mutono (Kitui South) - with administrative centre at Mutomo
- Mwala
- Mwingi - with administrative centre at Mwingi
- Tharaka - with administrative centre at Marimanti
- Tigania - with administrative centre at Urru
- Yatta - with administrative centre at Kithima.
Attractions
Cities:
How to get there
- By car: the highways A2 Nairobi-Moyabe, A109 Mombasa-Nairobi, B6, B7, B9.
- By air: the airports Garba Tula, Embu, Mulika Lodge of Meru, Isiolo, Kitui, Marsabit, Oda of Moyale.
It coincides with the city of Nairobi and has 3 districts, entirely urban.
History
The area of Nairobi was an uninhabited swamp until the beginning of the twentieth century when it was built here a supply depot for the Uganda Railway. Over the past 100 years the area has been considerably enlarged and today on the city of Nairobi are headquarters for various companies and international organizations, becoming one of the most influential cities in Africa.
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The districts are:
- Nairobi East – with administrative centre at Makadara
- Nairobi South – with administrative centre at Mathare
- Nairobi West
Attractions
Cities:
How to get there
- By car: the highways A2 Nairobi-Moyabe, A104 Athi River-Namanga, A109 Nairobi-Mombasa.
- By train: rail station of Nairobi.
- By air: the airports Eastleigh, Jomo Kennyata and Wilson.
Bordered on the east with Somalia, on the north with Ethiopia, on the south with the Coast Province and on the west with the Eastern Province, with an area of 126,902 square kilometers, and the capital at Garissa, has 10 districts. It has large refuge camps, most of the refugees are coming from Somalia.
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History
During most of the twentieth century was part of African East British. After the dissolution of the former British colony, Britain granted the administration of the region to Kenyan nationalists although the population, almost in exclusively Somali, has shown a desire to join the newly formed Republic of Somalia.
The Somali leaders in the province have been placed in preventive detention and the province has been closed to general access for all strangers included members of parliament, to protect the nomadic population, being very difficult to get news from the area. However some reports accusing the Kenyan of mass slaughter of whole villages of Somali people and to create the big "protected villages" which were actually concentration camps. The government has refused to recognize the ethnicity by reference in official statements to the problem of bandits (shift) in the area.
The districts are:
- Fafi – with administrative centre at Bura
- Garissa - with administrative centre at Garissa
- Ijara - with administrative centre at Masalani
- Mandera Central - with administrative centre at El Wak
- Mandera East - with administrative centre at Mandera
- Mandera West - with administrative centre at Takaba
- Wajir East - with administrative centre at Wajir
- Wajir North - with administrative centre at Bute
- Wajir Souts - with administrative centre at Habaswein
- Wajir West - with administrative centre at Griftu
Attractions
Cities:
How to get there
- By car: the highway A3 Thika–Liboi, B8 Mpmbasa-Garissa, B9
- By air: the airports of Bura East, Garissa, Fanjaa at Masalani, El Wak, Mandera and Waghala at Wajir.
Bordered to the north with the Western Province, to the east with the Rift Valley Province, to the south with Tanzania and to the west includes a part of Victoria Lake, with an area of 16,162 square kilometers, and the capital to Kisumu, has 18 districts . The name derives from Sukuma, a tribe of Tanzania who live on Victoria Lake and for them Nyanza means large mass of water.
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The districts are:
- Bondo – with administrative centre at Bondo
- Borabu - with administrative centre at Nyansiongo
- Gucha - with administrative centre at Ogembo
- Homa Bay - with administrative centre at Homa Bay
- Kisii - with administrative centre at Kisii
- Kisumu East - with administrative centre at Holo
- Kisumu West - with administrative centre at Kisumu
- Kuria - with administrative centre at Kehancha
- Manga
- Masaba - with administrative centre at Keroka
- Migori - with administrative centre at Migori
- Nyamira - with administrative centre at Nyamira
- Nyando - with administrative centre at Awasi
- Rachuonyo - with administrative centre at Kosele
- Rarieda
- Rongo - with administrative centre at Rongo
- Siaya - with administrative centre at Siaya
- Suba - with administrative centre at Mbita.
Attractions
How to get there
- By car: the highways A1 Tanzania-Sudan, B1 Nakuru-Uganda, B3.
- By train: the town reached by railway lines is è Kisumu.
- By air: the airports of Kisii, Kisumu and Migori.
It borders to the north with Sudan, on the east with the
Eastern Province,
Central Province and the
Nairobi Province, on the south with Tanzania and on the west with Uganda, with an area of 173,854 square kilometers, and the capital to Nakuru, it has 36 districts. As tourism attraction it has the Elgeyo escarpment and the Masai Mara Reserve .
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The districts are:
- Baringo – with administrative centre at Kabernet
- Bomet - with administrative centre at Bomet
- Buret - with administrative centre at Litein
- East Pokot - with administrative centre at Chemolingot
- Kajiado - with administrative centre at Kajiado
- Keiyo - with administrative centre at Iten
- Kericho - with administrative centre at Kericho
- Kipkelion - with administrative centre at Kipkelion
- Koibatek - with administrative centre at Eldama Ravine
- Laikipia East - with administrative centre at Nanyuki
- Laikipia North - with administrative centre at Dondol
- Laikipia West - with administrative centre at Rumuruti
- Loitoktok - with administrative centre at Loitoktok
- Marakwer - with administrative centre at Kapsowar
- Molo - with administrative centre at Molo
- Naivasha - with administrative centre at Naivasha
- Nakuru - with administrative centre at Nakuru
- Nakuru North (Subukia) - with administrative centre at Bahati
- Nandi North - with administrative centre at Kapsabet
- Nandi South - with administrative centre at Nandi Hills
- Narok North - with administrative centre at Narok
- Narok South - with administrative centre at Ololulunga
- North Pokot - with administrative centre at Kacheliba
- Samburu – with administrative centre at Mararal
- Samburu East - with administrative centre at Wamba
- Samburu North
- Sotik - with administrative centre at Sotik
- Trans Mara - with administrative centre at Kilgoris
- Trans-Nzoia East - with administrative centre at Maili Saba
- Trans-Nzoia West - with administrative centre at Kitale
- Turkana North - with administrative centre at Lokitaung
- Turkana South - with administrative centre at Lodwar
- Uasin Gishu North (Eldoret West) - with administrative centre at Eldoret
- Uasin Gishu South (Eldoret East) - with administrative centre at Naiberi
- Wareng - with administrative centre at Kesses
- West Pokot - with administrative centre at Kapenguria
Attractions
How to get there
- By car: the highways A1 Tanzania-Sudan, A2 Nairobi-Moyabe, A104 Ahti River-Namanga, B1 Nakuru-Uganda, B3, B4, B5, B53.
- By train: towns reached by railway lines are: Kajiado, Nanyuki, Molo, Naivasha, Nakuru, Kitale ed Eldoret.
- By air: the airports of Kajiado, Kericho, Nanyuki, Rumuruti, Naivasha, Nakuru, Narok, Wamba, Kilgoris, Kitale, Lokitaung, Lodwar, Eldoret and Kisiaunet at Kapenguria.
It borders to the north and to the east with the
Rift Valley Province, an the south with the
Nyanza Province and on the west with Uganda, with an area of 8,361 square kilometers, and the capital to
Kakamega, it has 16 districts. He has a lot of sugar factories and the largest paper factory in Africa.
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The districts are:
- Bungoma East (Webuye) – with administrative centre at Webuye
- Bungoma North - with administrative centre at Kimilili
- Bungoma South - with administrative centre at Bungoma
- Bungoma West (Sirisia) - with administrative centre at Chwele
- Bunyala - with administrative centre at Budalangi
- Busia - with administrative centre at Busia
- Kisumu Butere - with administrative centre at Butere
- Emuhaya - with administrative centre at Kima
- Hamisi - with administrative centre at Hamisi
- Kakamega North (Malava) - with administrative centre at Malava
- Kakamega South - with administrative centre at Kakamega
- Lugari - with administrative centre at Lumakanda
- Mount Elgon - with administrative centre at Kapsokwony
- Mumias - with administrative centre at Mumias
- Samia - with administrative centre at Funyala
- Vihiga - with administrative centre at Mbale
Attractions
Cities:
How to get there
- By car: the highways A1 Tanzania-Sudan, A104 Ahti River-Namanga.
- By train: towns reached by railway lines are: Webuye and Butere.
- By air: the airports of Webuye, Bungoma, Busia and Kakamega.