Eastern Province (former)

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former administrative province of Kenya

Eastern Province (former) was one of Kenya’s eight historical administrative provinces, located in the eastern part of the country before the 2010 constitutional reorganization into counties.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Eastern Province	2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative province of Kenya ⓘ
abolishedBy	Constitution of Kenya 2010 NERFINISHED ⓘ
administeredBy	Provincial Commissioner ⓘ
borderedBy	Central Province (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Coast Province (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethiopia NERFINISHED ⓘ North Eastern Province (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rift Valley Province (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanzania NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital	Embu NERFINISHED ⓘ Machakos NERFINISHED ⓘ Meru NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	Kenya ⓘ
ethnicGroupMajority	Embu people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kamba people NERFINISHED ⓘ Meru people NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroupMinority	Borana people NERFINISHED ⓘ Somali people NERFINISHED ⓘ
governmentType	provincial administration ⓘ
higherLevelSubdivisionOf	Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalStatus	former first-level administrative division ⓘ
includedDistrict	Embu District NERFINISHED ⓘ Isiolo District NERFINISHED ⓘ Kitui District NERFINISHED ⓘ Machakos District NERFINISHED ⓘ Makueni District NERFINISHED ⓘ Marsabit District NERFINISHED ⓘ Meru Central District NERFINISHED ⓘ Meru North District NERFINISHED ⓘ Meru South District NERFINISHED ⓘ Moyale District NERFINISHED ⓘ Tharaka District NERFINISHED ⓘ
includedRegion	Mount Kenya region NERFINISHED ⓘ Ukambani region NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Eastern region ⓘ
languageMajority	Kikamba ⓘ Kikuyu NERFINISHED ⓘ Kimeru ⓘ
locatedIn	eastern Kenya ⓘ
numberInNationalScheme	one of eight historical provinces of Kenya ⓘ
partOf	Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ
reasonForAbolition	devolution to county governments ⓘ
replacedBy	Kenyan counties ⓘ
status	abolished ⓘ
subdivisionType	province ⓘ
timeZone	East Africa Time ⓘ
usedUntil	2010 ⓘ
utcOffset	+3 ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rift Valley Province → borderedByProvince → Eastern Province (former) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Province

Central Province, Kenya → borders → Eastern Province (former) ⓘ

Embu → locatedInFormerProvince → Eastern Province (former) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Province