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👉 List of cities in Kenya in the context of Nakuru County
Nakuru County is located in Kenya. It is number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan counties. Nakuru is a host to Kenya's Fourth City – Nakuru City, whereby it was awarded a City Charter on 1 December 2021, by President Uhuru Kenyatta, ranking it with Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu, as the other big cities in Kenya. With a population of 453,000 as per 2025 census, it is the third most populous county in Kenya after Nairobi County and Kiambu County, in that order. With an area of 7,496.5 km, it is Kenya's 19th largest county in size. Until 21 August 2010, it formed part of Rift Valley Province.
List of cities in Kenya in the context of Mombasa
Mombasa (/mɒmˈbæsə/ mom-BASS-ə; also US: /-ˈbɑːsə/ -BAH-sə) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital status in 1907. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. Buildings in the CBD are blue and white, representing the Indian Ocean. It is the country's oldest (c. 900 A.D.) and second-largest city after Nairobi, with a population of about 1,208,333 people according to the 2019 census.
Mombasa's location on the Indian Ocean made it a historical trading centre, and it has been controlled by many countries because of its strategic location. Kenyan school history books place the founding of Mombasa as 900 AD. It must have been already a prosperous trading town in the 12th century, as the Arab geographer al-Idrisi mentions it in 1151. It was a part of the Kilwa Sultanate from approximately the early 14th century until the dissolution of the sultanate in 1513. The oldest stone mosque in Mombasa, Mnara, was built c. 1300. The Mandhry Mosque, built in 1570, has a minaret that contains a regionally specific ogee arch. The city later came under the occupation and control of the Omani Empire in the late 17th century.