Luoland (historically, "Kavirondo") is the tribal homeland of the Kenya Luo (also called Jo-Luo or Kavirondo), a people of western Kenya, also extending into eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. This area consists roughly of the basin surrounding Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria. Non-Luo tribal areas abutting upon Luoland include those of the Padhola (to the west, in Uganda), the Luhya and Nandi (to the north), the Kipsigis (to the east), and the Gusii and Kuria (to the south). The Kavirondo are a native people of Uganda (East Africa), who dwell in the valley of the Nzoia River, on the western slopes of Mount Elgon, and along the north-east coast of Victoria Nyanza. ... Joluo (commonly known as Luo) are an ethnic group in Kenya and Tanzania. ... Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the Great Lakes of Africa. ... The Jopadhola or Badama are an ethnic group of Uganda. ... The Luhya (also Luyia, Luhia) are a Bantu people residing in Western Province, Kenya between Lake Victoria, Uganda and Mount Elgon. ... In Hinduism, Nandi is the white bull which Shiva rides, and the leader of the Ganas. ... The Kipsigis is a pastoralist ethnic group in Kenya, speaking the Kipsigis language. ... The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania). ...

The first Luo migrants to present day Luoland arrived from present day Uganda sometime around 1500 AD. The first European to enter Luoland was Joseph Thomson who struggled into the Kavirondo village of Kabaras on 28 November, 1883. (Thomson was shocked and made much ado over the habitual nakedness of the Luo which was in marked contrast with the tribes he had previously travelled among, but he ultimately decided that "morality has nothing to do with clothes" because the Luo were "the most moral of all the tribes in this region".) ...

Kisumu is the largest town in Luoland, and also the third (or more likely fourth) largest city in Kenya. Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya, with a population of 322,724 (1999 census). ...