KENYA: provinces population

KENYA

PROVINCE	capital	surface/sq.km	surface/sq.mi	e2002p	c1999	e1993	e1993	c1989	c1979	c1969	c1969p	c1962	code	code	code	code	pos.	particulars	variants of the name
source:				SH	TB	SY	BB	SY	LB	LB	WG,HW	LB	JaLa	GL	ISO	FIPS

Central	Nyeri	13176	5087	4527,7	3724,2	4152,0	3626,0	3116,7	2345,8	1675,6	1663,1		CN	CE	200	KE01	cs
Coast	Mombasa	83603	32279	2728,8	2487,3	2430,7	2155,0	1829,2	1342,8	944,1	936,0		CT	CO	300	KE02	se
Eastern	Embu	159891	61734	5693,6	4631,8	4940,9	4334,0	3768,7	2719,9	1907,3	1899,2		EA	EA	400	KE02	c	continues more or less Northern ca 1965
North Eastern	Garissa	126902	48997	473,2	962,1	741,4	408,0	371,4	373,8	245,8	244,2		NE	NE	500	KE06	ene	continues more or less Southern ca 1965
Nyanza	Kisumu	16162	6240	5152,3	4392,2	4804,5	4041,0	3507,2	2644,0	2122,0	2115,9		NY	NY	600	KE07	sw
Rift Valley	Nakuru	173868	67131	8178,9	6987,0	6107,9	5690,0	4981,6	3240,4	2210,3	2219,4		RV	RV	700	KE08	nw
Western	Kakamega	8360	3228	3765,3	3358,8	3176,0	3035,0	2544,3	1832,7	1328,3	1335,1		WE	WE	900	KE09	sw	formed 1965
special area:
Nairobi	Nairobi	684	264	2564,5	2143,3	1758,9	1678,0	1324,6	827,8	509,3	477,6		NR	NA	110	KE05	cs		Masai, Federal Area, Masai District

TOTAL:	Nairobi	582646	224960	33084,3	28686,6	28112,3	24967,0	21443,6	15327,2	10942,7	10890,5

former division (1962):

Central	Nyeri	28609	11046									1925,4
Coast	Mombasa	67154	25928									727,8
Northern	Garissa	330811	127726									590,1						replaced ca 1965 more or less by Eastern	North
Nyanza	Kisumu	28656	11064									3012,5
Rift Valley	Nakuru	44386	17137									1049,1
Southern	Machakos (?)	84905	32782									1014,0						replaced ca 1965 more or less by North Eastern	South
autonomous district:												2,6						in population column 1962: "traveling, moving people"
Nairobi	Nairobi	588	227									314,8

TOTAL:	Nairobi	585109	225910									8636,3

Particulars:
File created on 2001.02.02; revised and last modified on 2002.09.01 by Jan Lahmeyer