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

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

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

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.

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

Kisumu is the location of the Kisumu Impala Sanctuary.

Kit Mikayi, a large rock with three rocks on top, and is located off Kisumu Bondo Road towards Bondo.

Imperial Hotel is a 4 star Hotel in the heart of Kisumu.

Kisumu is served by Kisumu Airport, with regular daily flights to Nairobi and elsewhere.

The term used to refer to a resident of Kisumu is jakisumo ( plural, jokisumo ).

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

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

Another attraction is the Crying Stone of Ilesi located along the highway towards Kisumu.

The original ships serving the Uganda Railway were built in the United Kingdom as " knock down " ships ; that is, they were bolted together, all the parts marked with numbers, disassembled into thousands of parts, transported in kit form by sea to Mombasa and by rail to Kisumu and reassembled.

is a tugboat built by Bow, McLachlan & Co in 1912 and launched at Kisumu in 1913.

Maseno University is a university based in Maseno, near Kisumu, in Kenya and was founded in 1991.

The University is located in Maseno Township along Kisumu-Busia road, some 25 km from Kisumu City and 400 km west of Nairobi.

The Main campus is located along Kisumu-Busia road, while the Kisumu campus is located in Kisumu City.

Meanwhile, in 1901 the completion of the Uganda Railway from the coast at Mombasa to the Lake Victoria port of Kisumu moved colonial authorities to encourage the growth of cash crops to help pay the railroad's operating costs.

* 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.

Kisumu was identified by the British explorers in early 1898 as an alternative railway terminus and port for the Uganda railway, then under construction.

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

was built in Scotstoun in 1960 and reassembled at the Kenyan port of Kisumu on the lake in 1961.

* 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.

Attractions in the city include Kibuye Market, the Kisumu Museum, an impala sanctuary, a bird sanctuary, Hippo Point, and the nearby Kit Mikaye and Ndere Island National Park.

The provincial capital is Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya.

Also, other major urban center's proximity distances from Kisii town are ; Kisumu city which is 114 km ( 71 mi ) to the northwest, Nyamira at 23 km ( 14 mi ) to the immediate north ; Keroka at 25 km ( 16 mi ) to the east ; Kericho at 101 km ( 63 mi ) to the northeast, Kilgoris at 46 km ( 29 mi ) to the southeast ; Narok at 165 km ( 103 mi ) to the east, and Migori to the south-west 67 km ( 42 mi ) which otherwise connects the town to the Kenya / Tanzania border at Isebania town located a further 31 km ( 19 mi ) south.

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.

Nyalenda is an established slum suburb of Kenya's third largest city Kisumu.

The first specimen, a partial jaw discovered in 1909 by a gold prospector at Koru, near Kisumu in western Kenya, was also the oldest fossil hominoid known until recently, and the first fossil mammal ever found in sub-Saharan Africa.

Kenya ’ s then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Robert Ouko, was murdered on the morning of the 13th February, 1990, shot through the head, at the foot of Got Alila Hill, some 2. 4 km from his country residence in Koru, near Kisumu, north western Kenya.

Kit-Mikayi, a celebrated tor near 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

* Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya

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

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.

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

* 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.

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.