| Official Name: | Suam, Kenya |
| Pushpin Map: | Kenya |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kenya |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Kenya |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Trans-Nzoia County |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 1.2158°N 34.7342°W |
Suam, Kenya is a settlement in the Trans-Nzoia County of Kenya. It sits across the Suam River from Suam, Uganda, at the international border between the two countries.[1]
The settlement lies 44km (27miles), by road, northwest of Kitale, where the county headquarters are located.[2] Suam is located approximately 117km (73miles), by road, northwest of Eldoret, the nearest large city.[3] This location lies approximately 437km (272miles), by road, northwest of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and the largest city in that country.[4] The coordinates of Suam, Kenya are:1°12'57.0"N, 34°44'03.0"E (Latitude:1.215825; Longitude:34.734172).
In 2013, the Trans-Nzoia County government received a 100acres parcel of land at the Kenya-Uganda border, from the Kenya Forest Service, for the purpose of building the town of Suam, Kenya, across the Suam River from the already established town of Suam, Uganda.[1] [5]
In 2014, the governments of Kenya and Uganda began joint efforts to source funds from the African Development Bank for the purpose of tarmacking to grade II bitumen surface, the Kapchorwa–Suam Road in Uganda and the Suam–Endebess–Kitale–Eldoret Road on the Kenya side.[6] It is expected that the road improvement will spur trade between the two countries.[7] In August 2017, The EastAfrican reported that Kenya and Uganda were jointly developing a one-stop-border-crossing (OSBC) at Suam, similar to the crossings at Busia and Malaba.[8]