Coast Province

The Coast Province (Swahili: Mkoa wa Pwani) was one of Kenya's eight provinces. It contained all of the country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa. It was inhabited by the Mijikenda and Swahili peoples, among others. The province covered an area of 79,686.1 km2 .[1]

Coast Province
Mkoa wa Pwani
Province
Location in Kenya.
Location in Kenya.
Coordinates: 3°0′S 39°30′E
CountryKenya
No. of Counties:6
CapitalMombasa
Area
 • Total79,686.1 km2 (30,767.0 sq mi)
Population
 (2009)
 • Total3,325,307
 • Density42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
A map of Kenya showing its provinces

Tourist attraction

Some of the province's important towns included Kilifi, Malindi, Watamu and Lamu in the north, and Mwandimu and Magunda in the south. Some of the coastal population was located in resort and beach settlements as Kiongwe and Kipini.

Diani Beach was one of the province's major tourist centres, with palm trees and the white sandy beaches like Mombasa.

Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India; Mambrui appears to be the site where contact occurred with the Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of Zheng He.[2]

Watamu is a small fishing community and contains East Africa's first marine national park, the Watamu Marine National Park.

Population data

The Coast Provinces had a population of 3,325,307 in 2009.[1]

Climate

The climate is designated as Aw in the Köppen climate classification system.[3]

Economy

Mining

Separatism

In 1999, the Mombasa Republican Council was formed, with the goal of engineering the Coast Province's secession from Kenya.[4][5]

Dissolution

In 2010, a new constitution came into effect which divided Kenya's 8 provinces into 47 counties. The Coast Province was divided into six: Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana River, Lamu, and Taita–Taveta counties.

Villages and settlements (A-L)

Villages and settlements (M-Z)

See also

References
  1. "Kenya Census 2009 | Census | Waste Management". Scribd. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  2. "Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history?". BBC News. 17 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  3. "Figure 4. Köppen-Geiger climate type map of Africa". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  4. Insight - Separatist storm brewing on Kenya's coast
  5. Kantai, Parselelo (17 Mar 2012). "Kenya's Mombasa Republican Council: The Coast calls for freedom". The Africa Report. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.


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