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The Kisumu region was then occupied by the Luo community. A person going to Kisumu at that time would say, "Adhi Kisuma" to mean I'm going to trade. Derived from the word "Kisuma", the word for a trading post in Luo is "Kisumo", and in Nandi, "Kesumett". The current name Kisumu is an English corruption of the word "Kisumo" or "Kesumett".
The Kisumu Museum and the Impala Park provide further tourist attractions. Kisumu is touted to have one of the best sunsets in the world, and arguably the best in Kenya, with the sun sinking into the horizon over the lake turning the water into many hues, a spectacle that continues to drive up tourist numbers into the county.
www.gluk.ac.ke Great Lakes University of Kisumu (or GLUK) is a Kenyan private chartered university. [ 1 ] The idea of establishing the Great Lakes University of Kisumu originated in the Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development (TICH) in Africa, which spearheaded the application for authority to operate as a university.
Under the new constitution, Kenya is now divided into 47 counties for administrative purposes. They are grouped below according to the former province they were separated from, with their areas and populations as of the 2009 [6] and the 2019 census: [7]
Nakuru County is a county in Kenya.It is county number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan counties. Nakuru County is a host to Kenya's Fourth City – Nakuru City. On 1 December 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded a City Charter status to Nakuru, [6] ranking it with Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu as the cities in Kenya.
Maseno University is a public university based in the Maseno district of the Kisumu County, Kenya, along the Equator. [1] It was fully fledged as a university in 2001, after being a constituent college of Moi University for a decade.
Kisumu International Airport is an international airport [2] in Kisumu, the third-largest city in Kenya (IATA: KIS, ICAO: HKKI). It is the third-busiest airport in Kenya, [ 3 ] the busiest airport in Kenya west of Nairobi , and the country's fourth international airport.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kisumu (Latin: Kisumuen(sis)) is the Latin Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Kisumu in western Kenya. The cathedral archiepiscopal see is St. Theresa ’s Cathedral, in Kisumu , Kisumu County .