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Kenya: 47 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 47 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-KEN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO KEN / KEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
47
first-level units
1,789
units at 3 levels
56,953,937
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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Kenya by province, state and territory

47 first-level units and 290 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 47 first-level units of Kenya
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
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Every administrative level of Kenya

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
47 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
290 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
ADM3
1,452 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
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All 47 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Public Domain · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Baringo KE-01 786,925 726,653 10,844 73 1.4% 0
Bomet KE-02 1,309,274 1,151,865 2,831 462 2.3% 0
Bungoma KE-03 1,779,556 2,035,673 3,039 586 3.1% 0
Busia KE-04 985,327 1,045,568 1,823 540 1.7% 0
Elgeyo-Marakwet KE-05 535,408 538,204 3,032 177 0.9% 0
Embu KE-06 850,091 711,044 2,839 299 1.5% 0
Garissa KE-07 1,811,450 825,091 45,026 40 3.2% 0
Homa Bay KE-08 1,162,270 1,325,085 4,777 243 2% 0
Isiolo KE-09 339,488 403,094 25,465 13 0.6% 0
Kajiado KE-10 906,200 1,590,581 21,920 41 1.6% 0
Kakamega KE-11 2,099,175 1,965,801 3,002 699 3.7% 0
Kericho KE-12 870,850 821,439 2,112 412 1.5% 0
Kiambu KE-13 1,707,359 3,088,493 2,586 660 3% 0
Kilifi KE-14 1,283,156 1,592,548 12,554 102 2.3% 58,236
Kirinyaga KE-15 582,628 616,757 1,484 393 1% 0
Kisii KE-16 1,324,853 1,159,745 1,312 1,010 2.3% 0
Kisumu KE-17 1,280,460 1,368,747 2,687 477 2.2% 0
Kitui KE-18 1,189,261 1,201,811 30,694 39 2.1% 0
Kwale KE-19 893,193 1,217,645 8,277 108 1.6% 18,928
Laikipia KE-20 597,681 743,686 9,727 61 1% 0
Lamu KE-21 109,811 384,413 6,198 18 0.2% 50,237
Machakos KE-22 1,358,333 1,897,065 6,248 217 2.4% 0
Makueni KE-23 1,012,861 1,002,739 8,022 126 1.8% 0
Mandera KE-24 3,024,270 664,691 26,131 116 5.3% 0
Marsabit KE-25 377,981 703,710 76,265 5 0.7% 0
Meru KE-26 1,651,195 1,737,519 6,931 238 2.9% 0
Migori KE-27 1,160,671 1,306,575 3,180 365 2% 0
Mombasa KE-28 1,181,089 854,511 228 5,180 2.1% 216,493
Murang’a KE-29 1,108,528 1,335,175 2,553 434 1.9% 0
Nairobi KE-30 6,323,649 6,308,006 707 8,944 11.1% 0
Nakuru KE-31 2,724,515 2,664,949 7,480 364 4.8% 0
Nandi KE-32 1,149,482 1,121,535 2,882 399 2% 0
Narok KE-33 1,317,581 1,690,429 17,972 73 2.3% 0
Nyamira KE-34 725,728 592,114 889 816 1.3% 0
Nyandarua KE-35 714,686 629,684 3,288 217 1.3% 0
Nyeri KE-36 767,050 680,591 3,348 229 1.3% 0
Samburu KE-37 318,489 392,775 21,173 15 0.6% 0
Siaya KE-38 970,980 1,206,039 3,526 275 1.7% 0
Taita Taveta KE-39 373,954 368,235 17,228 22 0.7% 0
Tana River KE-40 383,737 541,274 37,992 10 0.7% 45,468
Tharaka KE-41 435,678 409,919 2,683 162 0.8% 0
Trans Nzoia KE-42 1,222,425 1,092,868 2,497 490 2.1% 0
Turkana KE-43 1,262,854 1,056,856 70,056 18 2.2% 0
Uasin Gishu KE-44 1,411,799 1,417,350 3,362 420 2.5% 0
Vihiga KE-45 702,767 500,122 562 1,250 1.2% 0
Wajir KE-46 2,133,687 961,484 56,958 37 3.7% 0
West Pokot KE-47 735,532 768,009 9,152 80 1.3% 0
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Kenya publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KEN ADM1, source: RCMRD GeoPortal, Africa GeoPortal, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KEN ADM2, source: IEBC, OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KEN ADM3, source: Benedict Aboki Omare and George Omare, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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