Bomet County

Bomet County
Population (state) - population density	875,689 population (2019) 438 population / km²
surface	1,997.9 km²
Coordinates	0 ° 48 ′  S , 35 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 0 ° 48 ′  S , 35 ° 14 ′  E
ISO 3166-2	KE-02

Bomet County (until 2010 Bomet District ) is a county in Kenya . The county capital is Bomet . In 2019, 875,689 people lived in the county on 1997.9 km². The county borders the Mau Forest , the largest mountain forest in East Africa. In Bomet County, tea and pyrethrum are mainly grown in addition to potatoes .

structure

The county is divided into councils and divisions. There are four constituencies: Bomet, Chepalungu, Konoin, Buret and Sotik. Under the 2010 constitution , the districts of Bomet, Buret and Sotik were merged under the new name of Bomet County .

Councils
Seat of the authority	Type	Population (1999)
Bomet	local community	42,024
Bomet County	county	340.770
total	-	382.794

Divisions
division	Population (1999)	Capital
Bomet Central	120,759	Bomet
Longisa	75,550	Longisa
Ndanai	37,910	Ndanai
Sigor	43,583	Sigor
Siongiroi	61.116
Sotic	41,609
Tinet Forest	2.234
total	382.794	-

Web links

Commons : Bomet County  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Kalenjin Online ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume I: Population by County and Sub-County. KNBS, accessed November 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ message on statehousekenya.go.ke from May 12, 2007 ( Memento of 27 September 2013 Internet Archive ), accessed on 12 February, 2010.
3. ^ County Data Sheet - Bomet. (No longer available online.) Opendata.go.ke, archived from the original on May 11, 2013 ; accessed on March 3, 2013 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics on cck.go.ke ( memento from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2010.