Kwale County

Kwale County is a county in the former Coast Province of Kenya. Its capital is Kwale, although Ukunda is the largest town, and it has an estimated population of 866,820. The county is mainly inland but has a coastline south of Mombasa that stretches for roughly 250 kilometres, and Diani Beach, the Shimba Hills National Reserve and the Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary are among its attractions. Four principal topographical features shape it: the Coastal Plain, the Foot Plateau, the Coastal Uplands, also called the Shimba Hills, and the Nyika Plateau of the hinterland. The main communities are the Digo and Duruma, clans of the larger Mijikenda group, with a significant Kamba presence, and the county has four constituencies, Msambweni, Matuga, Kinango and Lunga Lunga. It has a monsoon climate with annual rainfall between 400 and 1,680 millimetres.