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The Kuria are an ethnic and linguistic group resident in the Tarime and Serengeti districts of the Mara region in Northern Tanzania, and the west and east districts of Nyanza province in southwest Kenya. In 1994 the Kuria population was estimated to number 348,000, with 213,000 living in Tanzania and 135,000 in Kenya. The Kuria people are mainly agriculturalists and Pastoralists, with the Kenyan Kurians leaning towards agriculture and the Tanzanian Kurians more towards Pastoralism. The Kurians in the Serengeti district are distinctly Pastoralist. The Kuria people are divided into about 16 "subtribes" or clans, namely: Nyabasi, Bakira, Bairege, Bagumbe (who reside in both Kenyan and Tanzanian districts), Batimbaru, Banyamongo, Bakenye, Baikoma, Bamerani, as well as several others. (This list will be updated by and by.)[1].
