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Mfangano Island – Where the Lake's Heart Beats
Kiswahili
Mfangano Island at sunset on Lake Victoria – Welcome to Mfangano Island, Karibu

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Mfangano Island

An island in Lake Victoria, Kenya – its people, schools and health care, places to stay and how to get here. In English and Kiswahili.

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The island in numbers

65–661,2
km² area
24,1231
people (census 2019)
5603
m above the lake – Mount Kwitutu
44,5
languages spoken

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Sources (5)

  1. Kenya National Bureau of Statistics: 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census, Volume II – Distribution of Population by Administrative Units, 2020. knbs.or.ke
  2. Fiorella, K. J. et al.: "Human health alters the sustainability of fishing practices in East Africa". PNAS 114, 2017. doi.org
  3. Idris, Z. M. et al.: "High and Heterogeneous Prevalence of Asymptomatic and Sub-microscopic Malaria Infections on Islands in Lake Victoria, Kenya". Scientific Reports 6, 2016, 36958. doi.org
  4. Chung, E. O. et al.: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(14), 2019, 2510. doi.org
  5. Mhando, J. (National Museums of Kenya) for UNESCO Nairobi: Safeguarding Endangered Oral Traditions in East Africa, January 2008. ich.unesco.org

Last checked: 13 October 2026