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Homa Bay District was an administrative district in the Nyanza Province of Kenya. Its capital town is Homa Bay. The district had a population of 288,540 and an area of 1,160 km². The district itself was carved out of the South Nyanza District formerly known as South Kavirondo District. In 2013, the district's boundaries before 1992 were used used in the creation of the devolved Homa Bay County.
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- ↑ "Kenya Districts". www.statoids.com. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ "The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census" (PDF). Amazonaws. pp. 152, 153, 154. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
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