Trans Nzoia County is one of the 47 counties that were created by the new constitution and covers the former larger Trans Nzoia District. It is considered as one of the Country’s main bread baskets owing to the intensive and extensive cultivation of grain crops, mainly maize and beans that is undertaken in the region.
The County has five sub constituencies namely Saboti, Kiminini, Kwanza, Endebess and Cherangany sub county. The county is headquartered in Kitale town that also hosts the offices of the County Governor occupying the former municipal offices and the County Assembly occupying the former Nzoia county council offices.
