Kisumu
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/20677
- Note
- "Kisumu serves as the capital city of Kisumu County, Kenya and has a population of 397,957 as per the Kenyan 2019 census (the rural population of Kisumu county was 714, 668 during the same census indicating that the city comprises majority of the urban residents in the county which has a total population 1,155,574). Kisumu is the immediate former capital of Nyanza Province, the headquarters of Kisumu County an important link in the trade route between Lake Victoria and Mombasa because of its water and rail connections. It is also the chief terminus for the agricultural produce of Nyanza and Western provinces. It is the largest and most important city in the Western Kenya. Kisumu serves as a trading and transportation hub for the Great Lakes region in western Kenya. Kisumu International Airport has regular flights to Nairobi and other neighboring cities such as Mombasa, Mwanza, and Kigali. It is the second most important city after Kampala in the greater Lake Victoria basin and according to the United Nations it is now recognized as a key city and a ‘Millennium City’ – the first of its kind in the world and also in East Africa.." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
- Latitude
- -0.10000000149012
- Longitude
- 34.75
- Inhabitants
- 216,479
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