Uasin Gishu County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in the former Rift Valley Province. Eldoret has the county's largest population centre as...
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The Uasin Gishu people were a community that inhabited a plateau located in western Kenya that today bears their name. They are said to have arisen from...
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Uasin Gishu District, also known as Eldoret District, was one of the districts of Kenya, located in the Rift Valley Province. The town of Eldoret was...
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Kaptagat (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
a settlement in Uasin Gishu County, in the southwestern part of Kenya. This part of the country, where the two counties of Uasin Gishu and Elgeyo Marakwet...
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Oropom people (section Uasin Gishu)
gorge. Other Oropom moved into Uasin Gishu Maasai held territory. According to Maasai tradition, an alliance of the Uasin Gishu and Siria communities attacked...
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2000 BP. The name Sirikwa derives from a community that occupied the Uasin Gishu plateau perhaps as late as the 17th or 18th century. Seen to have developed...
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Jonathan Bii (category Uasin Gishu Politicians)
Moja is a Kenyan politician. He is currently the second governor of Uasin Gishu County, elected into office during the 2022 Kenyan general election....
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Speaker of the Kenya National Assembly and woman representative for Uasin Gishu County She is a member of the United Democratic Alliance. Gladys obtained...
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Eldoret (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Located in western Kenya, and lying south of the Cherangani Hills...
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Pokot to the north, Baringo County to the east, southeast and south, Uasin Gishu to the southwest and west, and Trans Nzoia to the northwest. The total...
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Kimnyole (section Reconquest of Uasin Gishu)
routing of the Uasin Gishu Maasai by a combined force of the Naivasha and Laikipia Maasai. The Nandi then defeated the remnants of the Uasin Gishu at a battle...
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Kelvin Kiptum (category People from Uasin Gishu County)
Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record. As of 2024[update]...
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Burnt Forest (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
Burnt Forest is a town in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. In the 1960s, forested land in what is now the town of Burnt Forest was cleared to make way for farms...
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Local elections were held in Uasin Gishu to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010...
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climbed the escarpment and started to settle on the highland east of Uasin Gishu plateau. When the British came, the Keiyos were pushed to settle in clusters...
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Trans-Nzoia 162 174 4 Ruiru Kiambu 490 120 14 Juja Kiambu 156 041 5 Eldoret Uasin Gishu 475 716 15 Mlolongo Machakos 136 351 6 Kisumu Kisumu 397 957 16 Malindi...
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Siger people (section Uasin Gishu Ngishu - Siger war)
Uasin Gishu, as well as parts of Elgeyo-Marakwet, Trans Nzoia and a southern section of West Pokot; ...Commences from Kiporoom River in Uasin Gishu District...
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the present Uasin Gishu country" where they accidentally got split in two by a wedge of Masai who Orchadson records as being "Uasin Gishu (Masai) living...
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William Ruto (category Uasin Gishu Politicians)
William Ruto was born on 21 December 1966 in Sambut village, Kamagut, Uasin Gishu County, to Daniel Cheruiyot and Sarah Cheruiyot. Ruto started his education...
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The constituencies of Kenya are used to elect members of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of the Kenyan Parliament. In accordance with Article...
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Matunda (category Populated places in Uasin Gishu County)
Matunda is a town in Soy Sub-county, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. As of the year 2019, there are 10,807 inhabitants within the boundary of Matunda. Its...
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it the largest urban centre in the Rift Valley, succeeding Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. The city lies along the Nairobi–Nakuru Highway, 160 kilometres...
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Paul Kiplimo Boit (category People from Uasin Gishu County)
Sirikwa County Council (which later came to be divided to Nandi County, Uasin Gishu County, Trans Nzoia County, West Pokot County Elgeyo Marakwet County...
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Jackson Mandago (category Uasin Gishu Politicians)
politician who currently serves as the senator of Uasin Gishu County. He served as the first Governor of Uasin Gishu County from 2013-2022. He was first elected...
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Soy Constituency (category Constituencies in Uasin Gishu County)
Soy is a constituency in Kenya, one of six constituencies in Uasin Gishu County. The name is derived from the Kalenjin word Soin meaning hot. "Constituency...
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Kesses Constituency (category Constituencies in Uasin Gishu County)
Kesses is a constituency in Kenya, one of six constituencies in Uasin Gishu County, the member of parliament for this constituency is Dr Mishra Swarap...
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Municipality (Ruiru + Githurai) 490,120 Kiambu 5. Eldoret City 475,716 Uasin Gishu 6. Kisumu City 397,957 Kisumu 7. Kikuyu Municipality 323,881 Kiambu 8...
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northern parts of eastern Africa. It ranges in northwestern Kenya (from Uasin Gishu and Lake Baringo) to the Karamoja district of Uganda. It is also found...
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Moiben Constituency (category Constituencies in Uasin Gishu County)
Moiben is a constituency in Kenya, one of six constituencies in Uasin Gishu County. Moiben Constituency is divided into the following Wards: Moiben Ward...
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Turbo Constituency (category Constituencies in Uasin Gishu County)
Turbo is a constituency in Kenya, one of six constituencies in Uasin Gishu County. "Constituency – Constituencies in Kenya". softkenya. Retrieved 9 June...
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