Kisumu District

Kisumu District

Kisumu District is an administrative district of Nyanza Province in western Kenya. Its headquarters is Kisumu City. It has a population of 504,359 (as of 1999) and a land area of 919 km² [http://www.statoids.com/yke.html] . The main industries are subsistence agriculture and fishery on Lake Victoria. Kisumu Town is the main commercial centre in western Kenya.

Subdivisions

Kisumu District has two local authorities (1999 census [http://www.cbs.go.ke/pdf/authority.pdf] ):
*Kisumu Town (population: 332,024; urban population: 194,390)
*Kisumu County Council (population: 172,335; urban population: 2,687)

The district has three constituencies:
*Kisumu Town East Constituency
*Kisumu Town West Constituency
*Kisumu Rural Constituency

External links

* [http://www2.reliefweb.int/rw/fullMaps_Af.nsf/luFullMap/0F1A15156A08CBFF85256D2C00713462/$File/ocha_kenKisumu200503.pdf?OpenElement Map of Kisumu District (before Nyando District was created)]


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