Bungoma County

Bungoma County is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya, with its capital at Bungoma town. The 2019 census counted 1,670,570 people, of whom 812,146 were men and 858,389 were women, living across an area of 2,069 square kilometres. The county is divided into nine constituencies named Bumula, Kabuchai, Kanduyi, Kimilili, Mount Elgon, Sirisia, Tongaren, Webuye East and Webuye West. Its economy is mainly agricultural and centres on sugarcane and maize, helped by high rainfall through the year and several large rivers used for small-scale irrigation. The Bukusu people occupy much of the county and resisted British rule in the late nineteenth century in a war that began at Lumboka and ended at Chetambe near Webuye.