The Coast Province ( Swahili : Mkoa wa Pwani ) was one of Kenya 's eight provinces . It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean . Its capital city was Mombasa . It was inhabited by the Mijikenda and Swahili peoples, among others. The province covered an area of 79,686.1 km .
4-465: Koreni may refer to: Koreni (settlement) , in Kenya's Coast Province Koreni (novel) , by Serbian author Dobrica Cosic published in 1954 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Koreni . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
8-429: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreni&oldid=1002601858 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Koreni (settlement) Some of the province's important towns included Kilifi , Malindi , Watamu and Lamu in
12-405: The north, and Mwandimu and Magunda in the south. Some of the coastal population was located in resort and beach settlements such as Kiongwe and Kipini . Diani Beach was one of the province's major tourist centres, with palm trees and white sandy beaches like Mombasa. Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India; Mambrui appears to be
16-633: The site where contact occurred with the Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of Zheng He . Watamu is a small fishing community and contains East Africa's first marine national park, the Watamu Marine National Park . The Coast Provinces had a population of 3,325,307 in 2009. The climate is designated as Aw in the Köppen climate classification system. In 1999,
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