Kirinyaga District

Kirinyaga District was an administrative district in the Central Province of Kenya. Its administrative centre is Kerugoya. As of 1999, the district had a population of 457,105 and an area of 1,478 km².

Kirinyaga District was historically part of Embu District until prior to independence when the colonial government made it its own district. In 2013, Kirinyaga District effectively disappeared and Kirinyaga County was effected as per the constitution of Kenya.

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