Samburu County

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Samburu County
Population (state)
- population density 		310,327 inh. (2019)
15 inh. / Km²
surface 20,182.5 km²
Coordinates 1 ° 15 ′  N , 37 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 1 ° 15 ′  N , 37 ° 0 ′  E
ISO 3166-2 KE-37
Samburu County in Kenya.svg

Samburu County (until 2010 Samburu District ) is a county in Kenya . It is named after the Samburu people who live there . The county's capital is Maralal . In 2019, 310,327 people lived in the county on 20,182.5 km². The county is one of the driest areas in Kenya, the people mainly live from nomadic livestock farming.

The county stretches from Uaso Nyiro to the south shore of Lake Turkana . The Samburu National Reserve and parts of the Buffalo Springs National Reserve are in the county . Samburu County has 1,400 km of roads, but no roads are paved. Only four of the six divisional capitals have a telephone connection. There are only four post offices in Samburu County.

The county hit the headlines in November 2012 when cattle thieves ambushed 30 police officers and shot dead and injured several. Prior to the incident, there had been repeated battles for cattle, pasture and water.

structure

The county is divided into councils and divisions. There are two constituencies, Samburu East and Samburu West.

Councils
Seat of the authority Type Population (1999)
Maralal city 024,612
Samburu county 118.935
total - 143,547
Divisions
division Population (1999) Capital
Baragoi 019,884 Baragoi
Kirisia 047,072 Mararal
Lorroki 025,571
Nyiro 015,551
Wamba 024,155 Wamba
What O 010,314
total 143,547 -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume I: Population by County and Sub-County. KNBS, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c http://www.kenyafoodsecurity.org/images/stories/files/dps/rift/samburu.pdf (link not available)
  3. ↑ Cattle thieves shoot 30 police officers , article from November 12, 2012 on spiegel.de , accessed on November 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Statistics on cck.go.ke (PDF) ( Memento from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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