Kapsokwony is a small town in Bungoma County,

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. The town is part of Mount Elgon County Council and Mount Elgon Constituency. Kapsokwony division has a population of 24,526, of whom 1,586 are classified as urban (1999 census ). The urban population was 7,077 in 2019. Kapsokwony formed one of four

administrative divisions Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

in the former

Mount Elgon District Mount Elgon District (Mt. Elgon District) was an districts of Kenya, administrative district in the Western Province (Kenya), Western Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Kapsokwony. In 2010, it was merged into Bungoma County. Geography and de ...

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