Place:North Eastern, Kenya

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NameNorth Eastern
Alt namesNorth Easternsource: Wikipedia
North-Eastern Provincesource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 327
TypeProvince
Coordinates1.0°N 40.25°E
Located inKenya
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Buna
Dif
El Roba
El Wak
Garissa
Habaswein
Higlet
Ijara
Kolbio
Kundi
Liboi
Mandera
Ramu
Sarim
Wajir
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

The North Eastern Province is one of the former provinces in Kenya. It has a land area of 127,358.5 km2, with its capital at Garissa. Previously known as the Northern Frontier District (NFD), the North Eastern Province territory was carved out of the present-day southern Somalia during the colonial period.

However, during negotiations for Kenya's independence, Britain granted administration of the NFD to Kenyan nationalists despite an informal plebiscite showing the overwhelming desire of the region's population to join the newly formed Somali Republic. It is, and has historically been, mostly inhabited by ethnic Somalis.

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