Narok District was an administrative district in Kenya. The Narok District is located in the Rift Valley Province, and has a population of 365,750. [1] Its capital town is Narok.
Along with Kisii District, Narok District had been identified as having the highest level of practice of female genital cutting in the country, despite the practice being outlawed in 2001. [2]
Narok was created prior to independence by the colonial government from the Maasai Region. [3] In 1994, Trans Mara District was split from Narok District. In 2013, Trans Mara was reconstituted to form Narok County.
The district had two constituencies:
| Local authorities (councils) | |||
| Authority | Type | Population* | Urban pop.* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narok | Town | 41,092 | 24,091 |
| Narok County | County | 324,658 | 2,839 |
| Total | - | 365,750 | 26,930 |
| * 1999 census. Source: | |||
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. Their description of the area when looked at from afar: "Mara" means "spotted" in the local Maasai language, due to the many short bushy trees which dot the landscape.
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