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Key facts
- Country
- Kenya
- Capital
- Nyeri
- Total
- 13,199 km (5,096 sq mi)
- Density
- 332.13/km (860.20/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Kenya
- Official name
- Kati
- Country
- Kenya (1963–1964)
- Capital
- Nyeri
- Population
- 4383743
- Area
- 11449.1
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Eastern Province
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- Commons category
- Central Province (Kenya)
- topic's main category
- Category:Central Province (Kenya)
- native label
- Kati
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Encyclopedic overview
Central Province of Kenya surrounded the capital, Nyeri, and included the slopes of Mount Kenya (click to enlarge map). The Central Province (Swahili: Kati, Gikuyu: Gichigo gia Gatagati) was a region in central Kenya until 2013, when Kenya's provinces were replaced by a system of counties. It covered an area of 11,449 km (4,420 sq mi) and was located to the north of Nairobi and west of Mount Kenya (see maps). The province had 4,383,743 inhabitants according to the 2009 census. The provincial headquarters was Nyeri.
Central Province was the ancestral home of the Gikuyu people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Central Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.