- Kapsabet
Kapsabet is a town in the
Rift Valley Province ,Kenya . It is the capital ofNandi District . Kapsabet hosts a municipal council and divisional headquarters of Kapsabet administrative division. Kapsabet municipality has an urban population of 17,918 and a total population of 64,830 (1999 census [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics: [http://treasury.go.ke/cbs.go.ke/pdf/authority.pdf "Population of local authorities"] ] ).Kapsabet municipality has eight wards (Chemundu/Kaptildil, Chepterit,
Kabirirsang , Kamobo, Kapsabet, Kiminda,Kipsigak /Kipsotoi and Kipture/Irimis). All of them fall under the Emgwen constituency, which has a total of seventeen wards, the remaining nine are located within Nandi County Council [Electoral Commission of Kenya: [http://www.eck.or.ke/downloads/pollingcentres.pdf "Registration centres by electoral area and constituency"] ] .Kapsabet is located 40 kilometres southwest of
Eldoret .Many successful long distance runners have been born in or near Kapsabet, including
Bernard Lagat ,Peter Rono ,Wilfred Bungei , andMartin Lel .References
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