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2026-03-21 11:00
I Built a Free REST API for Kenya's 47 Counties, 290 Constituencies, and 1,450 Wards
Mipaka API — a free REST API for administrative divisions across 7 East African countries. No more hardcoding county arrays.
The Problem Every African Developer Knows
You're building a form. It has a location dropdown. You need Kenya's 47 counties, then the constituencies under each county, then the wards.
So you do what we all do:
const counties = ["Baringo", "Bomet", "Bungoma", "...