Samburu is a sub county located in
Kwale County
Kwale County is a county in the former Coast Province of Kenya. Its capital is Kwale, although Ukunda is the largest town.
Kwale County has an estimated population of 866,820.
Kwale is mainly an inland county, but has a coastline south of ...
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...
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Administratively, it is one of five
sub-counties of Kwale County.
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Samburu sub county is pre-dorminantly made up of the Duruma sub-tribe of the larger Mijikenda Community along the coast. Samburu derived its name from the word 'chimburu' which is the Owl.It was mispronounced by the white man when he came across a Duruma elderly man called Bati Kalinga during the construction of the Kenya Uganda railway line in 1897. He was asked through a translator what he was doing in that area,his reply was that,he lived there with many owls(chimburu)...and the white man mispronounced the word to Samburu.
Transport
It is served by a station on the national railway network and the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.
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Samburu subcounty should not be confused with Samburu County located elsewhere in Kenya,Samburu National Reserve
Samburu National Reserve is a game reserve on the banks of the Ewaso Ng'iro river in Kenya. It is in size and is from Nairobi. It ranges in elevation from . Geographically and administratively, it is part of Samburu County.
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Details
* Altitude
See also
* Railway stations in Kenya
Railway stations in Kenya include:
Maps
* UN Map
* UNHCR Atlas Map
* Prondis Map
* Railway Gazette International June 2012, p31
* KRC Map
Towns served by metre gauge railways
* Mombasa - Indian Ocean port
* Changamwe
* Miritini
* Mazeras ...
* Altitude
Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum (geodesy), datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context (e.g., aviation, geometr ...
References
Populated places in Coast Province
Kwale County
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