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Nandi
Total population
937,884 (2019)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Nandi people Kenya
Languages
Kalenjin
Religion
Christianity, African Traditional Religion
Related ethnic groups
Kalenjin and other Nilotes

The Nandi are part of the Kalenjin, a Nilotic tribe living in East Africa. The Nandi ethnic group live with close association and relation with the Kipsigis tribe. They traditionally have lived and still form the majority in the highland areas of the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya, in what is today Nandi County. They speak the Nandi dialect of the Kalenjin language.

  1. ^ "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume IV: Distribution of Population by Socio-Economic Characteristics". Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

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