Taveta, Kenya
Overview
Coast Province
Coast Province of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean, is one of Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside Nairobi. It comprises the Indian Ocean coastal strip with the capital city at Mombasa and is inhabited by the Mijikenda and Swahili, among others...
in Kenya. The town has an urban population of 11,500 (1999 census http://treasury.go.ke/cbs.go.ke/pdf/authority.pdf).
The town of Taveta is wedged into a projection of Kenyan territory bordered on the north and west by Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
. The irregularity in the border was created c.
