It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the immediate former capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu County.

Ouko was born in Nyahera village, near Kisumu, Nyanza Province.

The capital ( political ) | capital of Kenya's Nyanza Province, on Lake Victoria, is Kisumu ( click to enlarge map )

From Kisii, it is easy to get to Tabaka Soapstone quarries, the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Narok County, Lambwe Valley Game Reserve in South Nyanza County, Kisumu city and the Kenya / Tanzania or Kenya / Uganda border points.

Kit-Mikayi, a celebrated tor near Kisumu, Kenya

* December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.

Its shores are dotted with cities and towns, including Kisumu, Kisii, and Homa Bay in Kenya ; Kampala, Jinja, and Entebbe in Uganda ; and Bukoba, Mwanza and Msoma in Tanzania.

* Kisumu Airport, a public airport serving Kisumu, Kenya

* 13 die near Kisumu, Kenya, after a passenger train rolls back because of air brake failure-15 August 2000

FUM's headquarters is in Richmond, Indiana, and has offices in Kisumu, Kenya.

* Port Bell-The port, located on the shores of Lake Nalubaale, handles both passenger and cargo traffic destined for Kisumu, Kenya and Mwanza and Musoma in Tanzania.

Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale.

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at, with a population of 355, 024 ( 1999 census ).

Kisumu was also privileged to host the first flight in East and Central Africa ; the current police workshop was the first hangar in Kenya and entire East Africa.

Currently, Kisumu is one of the fastest growing cities in Kenya.

* Robert Ouko, politician and son of Kisumu Nyahera who was abducted from his Koru, Kenya home.

* Kisumu Town is now the new headquarters of the newly created Kisumu County in the new Counties of Kenya.

* Kenya Wildlife Service – Kisumu Impala Sanctuary

The railroad went through Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania and included the major cities of Mombasa, Nairobi, Tanga, Dar Es Salaam, Mpanda, Kigma, Tunduma, Kidatu, Tabora, Mwanza, Arusha, Moshi, Nagedi, Nanyuki, Nakuru, Kisumu, Kasese, Kampala, Tororo, and Anua.

Kakamega is 52 km north of Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya and a port city on Lake Victoria.

Regional stations were set up in Mombasa ( Sauti ya Mvita ), Nyeri ( Mount Kenya Station ) and Kisumu ( Lake Station ).</ li >

In 1957 he and Lydia moved to Kisumu in Kenya, where he became a school principal and adopted a Kenyan baby.

Typical journey times are 13 hours between Port Bell in Uganda and Kisumu in Kenya, and 19 hours between Port Bell and Mwanza in Tanzania.

Kenya Railways ' main line links Kisumu with the port of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean.

Remarkable prehistoric sites in the interior of Kenya include the archaeoastronomical site Namoratunga on the west side of Lake Turkana and the walled settlement of ThimLich Ohinga in Nyanza Province.

Oginga Odinga was born in Bondo, Nyanza Province.

Other pavilions show weaponry, jewellery, farm tools and other artifacts made by the various peoples of the Nyanza Province.

Category: Populated places in Nyanza Province

The Kisii ( also known as AbaGusii, as they prefer to call themselves ) is a community of Bantu speakers who inhabit the two counties ( Kisii, formerly Kisii District and Nyamira ) in Nyanza Province, Western Kenya.

Kisii town-known as Bosongo by the locals-is located in Nyanza Province to the southwest of Kenya and is home to the Gusii people.

As these Bantu speakers migrated from the Congo, they split up into different groups with the Kisii ending up in Nyanza Province near Lake Victoria.

Born in 1913 at Got Regea in Siaya, Nyanza Province, the late Benaiah Appolo Ohanga was the son of the late Ongewe Okelo

Nyanza ( also known as Nyabisindu ) is a town located in Nyanza ( district ) in the Southern Province of Rwanda.

Category: Education in Nyanza Province

* Bware Yearly Meeting, based in Suna in southern Nyanza Province

* Nyanza Province, Kenya

Nyanza Province () of Kenya, is one of Kenya's eight administrative provinces.

Several new districts were created in 2007 in Kenya, also in Nyanza Province:

Nyanza Province:

Category: Populated places in Nyanza Province

Among his fellow legislators were Daniel arap Moi representing the Rift valley, Tom Mboya representing Nairobi area, Bernard Mate representing Central Province, Ronald Ngala representing Coast Province, James Nzau Muimi representing Eastern Province, Lawrence Oguda representing Nyanza South, and Oginga Odinga representing Nyanza Central.