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Kenyan counties

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Bas Uele

Bas Uele (Bas-Uélé) is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the northeast with its capital at Buta.

Bomet

Bomet is a county in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya, created from the former Kericho district in 1992, with its capital at Bomet Town.

Debub Region

Debub Region, also called Southern Region (Zoba Debub), is one of Eritrea's six regions. Its capital is Mendefera, and with about 1.5 million people it is Eritrea's most populous region.

Eastern Province, Zambia

Eastern Province, Zambia: one of Zambia's ten provinces, capital Chipata, between the Luangwa River and the Malawi and Mozambique borders; 15 districts, about 52,056 km², predominantly rural and agricultural.

Faiyum Governorate

Faiyum Governorate (محافظة الفيوم), a governorate of northern Upper Egypt, Egypt, centered on the Faiyum Oasis depression fed by the Bahr Yussef canal; capital Fayoum city, area 6,068.70 km², population about 4 million, internally drained to Lake Qarun.

Garissa

Garissa is an arid county in Kenya's North-Eastern region bordering Somalia, with its capital at Garissa town on the Tana River and a pastoral livestock economy.

Gharbia Governorate

Gharbia Governorate (محافظة الغربية), an Egyptian governorate in the middle Nile Delta between the Damietta and Rosetta branches; area 1,943.27 km², population 5,379,417 (2022), capital Tanta, 8 cities, industrial and agricultural economy.

Gouvernorat de Tunis

Gouvernorat de Tunis (ولاية تونس), also called Governorate of Tunis, is one of Tunisia's 24 governorates, created 21 June 1956, chef-lieu Tunis; 288 km², 21 delegations, 8 municipalities, 1,075,305 inhabitants (2024 census).

Homa Bay

Homa Bay County, Kenya (Dholuo 'Homa Abaye'); devolved county since 2013 on Lake Victoria's southeastern shore, headquarters Homa Bay town, 8 sub-counties, 40 wards, economy based on agriculture and fisheries.

Icolo e Bengo Province

Icolo e Bengo Province, a new Angolan province created from Luanda by Law 14/24 (September 2024), effective 1 January 2025, capital Catete, 7 municipalities, 11 communes, governor Auzílio de Oliveira Martins Jacob, population about 1.52 million.

Kayanza Province

Kayanza is a commune of Butanyerera Province in northern Burundi, on the highlands of the Great Rift Valley seam on the Nile-Congo divide; its economy rests on coffee, tea, and food crops.

Kenitra Province

Kenitra Province (إقليم القنيطرة) is a province of Morocco in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region on the Atlantic coast, named after its capital city and the most populous province in the country.

Kericho

Kericho County, Kenya (county 035), South Rift tea-growing county, HQ Kericho town; 901,777 people (2019), 2,436 km2, six sub-counties; agriculture 43.5% of GCP, led by tea.

Kigoma Region

Kigoma Region (Mkoa wa Kigoma), a Tanzanian region on Lake Tanganyika bordering Burundi and DRC; capital Kigoma; 2,470,967 people (2022 census), six districts, major refugee-hosting region with Nyarugusu and Nduta camps, agriculture-dominated economy, among Tanzania's lowest HDI regions.

Kilifi

Kilifi (county code 03) is a coastal county in Kenya, capital Kilifi town, area 12,245.9 km2, population 1,453,787 (2019 census), governor Gideon Mung'aro; agriculture-based economy with high tourism and poverty above the national average.

Kisii

Kisii (Kisii County) is a county in the former Nyanza Province, southwestern Kenya, one of 47 devolved counties under the 2010 Constitution. Capital Kisii Town; 1,266,860 people (2019 census); highland agriculture in bananas, tea, coffee, and Tabaka soapstone carving.

Kwale

Kwale (County 002) is a coastal county of Kenya, capital Kwale town, governor Fatuma Achani; population 866,820 (2019), known for Diani Beach, titanium mining, and high poverty.

Lunda Norte Province

Lunda Norte (Província da Lunda-Norte), northeastern Angola province, capital Dundo, created 1978 from the Lunda division; 103,760 km², 19 municipalities, 1,742,217 people (2024 census), Cokwe people, diamond mining economy.

Lusaka Province

Lusaka Province, one of Zambia's ten provinces, holds the national capital Lusaka. Smallest by area (about 21,900 km²) but most populous (3,079,964 in 2022), with six districts including Lusaka, Kafue, and Rufunsa.

Maniema Province

Maniema, a province of the eastern-central Democratic Republic of the Congo with capital Kindu, area 132,250 km2, population about 2.3 million; gold, cassiterite, coltan, and wolfram mining, Congo River (Lualaba), created 1962, kept its 1988 limits in the 2015 découpage.

Meru, Kenya

Meru is one of Kenya's 47 counties, lying on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya and spanning the equator, with Meru Town as its largest town and administrative seat.

Migori

Migori County (code 044), southwestern Kenya, South Nyanza region; borders Tanzania and Lake Victoria; capital Migori Town; about 1.1 million people; economy of agriculture, fishing, and gold mining.

Ouadaï Region

Ouadaï (Ouaddaï, Dar Wadai) is an eastern Chadian province on the Sudan border, capital Abéché, former heart of the 1611 Wadai Sultanate; about 997,000 people, millet and trade economy, and a major destination of Sudanese refugees since 2023.

Trans Nzoia

Trans Nzoia County, Kenya county in former Rift Valley Province, capital Kitale, 990,341 people (2019), 2,495.6 km²; called Kenya's basket for commercial maize, tea, coffee, dairy.

Turkana

Turkana County, capital Lodwar, is Kenya's second-largest county (77,000 km²) in the arid northwest, home to Lake Turkana and the Turkana pastoralists, with Kenya's highest poverty rate and severe drought vulnerability.

Uasin Gishu

Uasin Gishu is a county in Kenya's Rift Valley, headquarters Eldoret (city), population 1,163,158, area 3,345.2 km2. Kenya's breadbasket for maize and wheat, home of champion long-distance runners, devolved unit since 2010.

Vihiga

Vihiga County, western Kenya, headquarters Mbale; one of 47 devolved counties, formerly Vihiga District (carved from Kakamega, 1989/1990). Small, densely populated (563.8 km², 590,013 people in 2019), agro-based economy with tea, MSMEs, and over 100 cooperatives.