Tharaka-Nithi District

Tharaka-Nithi District was one of the districts of Kenya located in that country's Eastern Province from 1992 to 1998. Its former boundaries now corresponds to those of Tharaka-Nithi County.

As of the 2009 census Tharaka-Nithi District had an area of 1570 km² and a population of 365,330 (2009 census)[1]

Tharaka-Nithi District was created in 1992 from the larger Meru District. In 1998, the Tharaka-Nithi District was split into two districts, Nithi (Meru South District) and Tharaka,[2] but a 2009 High Court decision declared that split unconstitutional and re-combined the two.[3]

From 1998 until 2009 the district headquarters for Tharaka District were at Marimanti (Tharaka); it had one local authority, Tharaka district council. and one constituency: Tharaka Constituency. The district was divided into three administrative divisions:

Administrative divisions
Division	Population*	Headquarters
Central Tharaka	38,914	Marimanti
North Tharaka	36,904	Gatunga
South Tharaka	25,174	Chiakariga
Total	100,992	-
* 1999 census. Sources: [1], [2],

References

1. Cited with new name, Tharaka-Nithi County, at "Kenya 2009 Population and Housing Census Highlights" (PDF). Kenya National Bureau of Statistic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2010.
2. Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter: (2005) Beyond access: transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education. Oxfam, page 107.
3. Nyasato, Robert (5 September 2009). "High Court outlaws 210 districts created by Moi and Kibaki since 1992". The Standard. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014.

External links

• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Kenya AdminLevels 1-4 (.pdf)

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