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Kisii, Kenya Kisii (also known as Bosongo) is a municipality and urban centre in south-western Kenya and the capital city of Kisii County. Kisii Town also serves as a major urban and commercial centre in the Gusii Highlands— Kisii and Nyamira counties ...

, a municipality and the capital of Kisii County *

Kisii County Kisii County is a Counties of Kenya, county in the former Nyanza Province in southwestern Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kisii, Kenya, Kisii. The county has a population of 1,266,860 people according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Hou ...

, one of the 47 counties of Kenya *

Kisii District Kisii District was a district in the Nyanza Province in southwestern Kenya. Its capital town was Kisii. The district was created during the colonial period from the South Kavirondo District. The district is inhabited mostly by the Gusii people. ...

, a former district of Kenya *

Gucha District Gucha District was a former Districts of Kenya, district in Nyanza Province, western Kenya. It was also known as South Kisii District or Ogembo District. In 1999, its population was approximately 461,000 peopl Its district headquarters were at Ogemb ...

, in Kenya, also known as ''South Kisii District'' *

Nyamira District Nyamira District was an administrative district in the Nyanza Province of Kenya. It was split from Kisii District in 1989 and was sometimes referred to as ''North Kisii District''. The district had a population of 492,102 (1999 census). Its capita ...

, in Kenya, also known as ''North Kisii District'' *

Kisii people The Abagusii (also known as Kisii (Mkisii/Wakisii) in Swahili, or Gusii in Ekegusii) are a Bantu people, Bantu ethnic group indigenous to Kisii County, Kisii and Nyamira County, Nyamira counties of former Nyanza Province, Nyanza, as well as ...

, an ethnic group in Kenya, also known as ''Abagusii or Gusii people'' *

Gusii language The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in Kisii and Nyamira counties in Nyanza Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii Town (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania). It is spoken nat ...

, Bantu language spoken by the Kisii people *

Kisii School for the Deaf Kisii School for Deaf Children is Kenya's only Deaf-run and deaf-led school for deaf children. Founded by Peter Ogango, the school is based in Kisii town, the capital of Kisii County Kisii County is a Counties of Kenya, county in the former N ...

, the only Deaf-run school for Deaf children in Kenya * Kisii stone, a name for

soapstone Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium-rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in sub ...

, quarried in Tabaka area of southern Kisii District *

Kisii University Kisii University is a public university located in Kisii. It was founded in 1965 as a primary teachers’ training college on a 61-acre land that was donated by the County Council of Gusii. The college continued up to 1983 when it was upgraded to ...

, Kenya

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