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Mombasa

(Encyclopedia) MombasaMombasamŏmbăˈsə, –bäˈsə [key], city (1990 est. pop. 537,000), capital of Coast prov., SE Kenya, mostly on Mombasa island in the Indian Ocean and partly on the mainland (with…

Kilindini

(Encyclopedia) Kilindini: see Mombasa, Kenya.

Nairobi

(Encyclopedia) NairobiNairobinīrōˈbē [key], city (1996 pop. 3,000,000), capital of Kenya, S Kenya, in the E African highlands. Nairobi is Kenya's largest city and its administrative, communications,…

Kisumu

(Encyclopedia) KisumuKisumukēs&oomacr;ˈm&oomacr; [key], city (1989 est. pop. 185,100), capital of Nyanza prov., SW Kenya, on Kavirondo Gulf (an arm of Lake Victoria). It is the principal lake…

Emin Pasha

(Encyclopedia) Emin PashaEmin Pashaāmēnˈ päˈshä [key], 1840–92, German explorer, whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. A physician, he served (1876–78) under Gen. Charles Gordon in Sudan as a…

Jinja

(Encyclopedia) JinjaJinjajĭnˈjə [key], city (2002 pop. 71,213), SE Uganda, on the Victoria Nile River, near Lake Victoria. It is an industrial city and the commercial and processing center for a…

Pemba

(Encyclopedia) PembaPembapāmˈbə [key], island (2012 pop. 223,033), c.380 sq mi (980 sq km), NE Tanzania, in the Indian Ocean just off the E African mainland. Pemba is part of the semiautonomous…

Kenya

(Encyclopedia) CE5 KenyaKenyakĕnˈyə, kēnˈ–, officially Republic of Kenya, republic (2015 est. pop. 47,236,000), 224,960 sq mi (582,646 sq km), E Africa. Kenya is bordered by Somalia on the east,…

Kampala

(Encyclopedia) KampalaKampalakämpäˈlä [key], city (2002 pop. 1,189,142), capital of Uganda, on Lake Victoria. It is Uganda's largest city and its administrative, communications, economic, and…

Almeida, Francisco de

(Encyclopedia) Almeida, Francisco deAlmeida, Francisco defrənsēshˈk&oobreve; [key]Almeida, Francisco de dĭ älmāˈdə [key], c.1450–1510, Portuguese admiral, first viceroy of Portuguese India. He…