[1] Some of the province's important towns included Kilifi, Malindi, Watamu and Lamu in the north, and Mwandimu and Magunda in the south.

Some of the coastal population was located in resort and beach settlements such as Kiongwe and Kipini.

Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India; Mambrui appears to be the site where contact occurred with the Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of Zheng He.

[3] In 1999, the Mombasa Republican Council was formed, with the goal of engineering the Coast Province's secession from Kenya.

The Coast Province was divided into six: Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana River, Lamu, and Taita–Taveta counties.