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Key facts
- Country
- Kenya
- Capital
- Kisumu
- Total
- 12,477.1 km (4,817.4 sq mi)
- Density
- 436.216/km (1,129.79/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Kenya
- Country
- Kenya
- Located in
- Kenya
- Capital
- Kisumu
- Population
- 5442711
- Area
- 12477.1
- Elevation
- 1134
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Lake Victoria
- Shares border with
- Rift Valley Province
- Image
- Homa mountain.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nyanza Province
- topic's main category
- Category:Nyanza Province
- different from
- Nyanza District
- native label
- Mkoa wa Nyanza
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Encyclopedic overview
The capital of Kenya's Nyanza Province, on Lake Victoria, is Kisumu (click to enlarge map) Nyanza Province ( Kenyan English: [ˈɲaːnzə]; Swahili: Mkoa wa Nyanza) was one of Kenya's eight administrative provinces before the formation of the 47 counties under the 2010 constitution. Six counties were organised in the area of the former province.
The region is located in the southwestern part of Kenya around Lake Victoria. It includes part of the eastern edge of the lake and is inhabited predominantly by the Luo people and Kisii people. There are also Bantu-speaking tribes, such as the Kuria, and some Luhya, living in the province. The province derives its name from Nyanza, a Bantu word which means a large mass of water.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nyanza Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.