The Great Rift Valley runs through it, and the Maasai Mara hosts the tail of the great wildebeest migration.
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Kenya
Republic of Kenya
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
580.37Kkmยฒ of land
$1.82KGDP / person
NairobiCapital
- ISO codes
- KE ยท KEN
- Density
- 91 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Swahili
- Currency
- Kenyan shilling (KES)
- Dial code
- +254
- Internet domain
- .ke
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 0.5490ยฐ N, 37.9080ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Kenyan
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $95.5B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Kenya stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
27th
of 242 ยท 0.68% of world population
Land area
49th
of 242 ยท 0.39% of world land
GDP per person
191st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
112th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Kenya
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 52,573,973 people, the 27th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.68 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 580,367 kmยฒ, making it the 49th largest country here - about 6.3 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 91 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Nairobi, at 1.28ยฐ S, 36.81ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,010,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Nairobi.
The currency is the Kenyan shilling (KES, symbol Sh).
Has 2 official languages: English and Swahili.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Nairobi
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Nairobi
Nairobi
1.2814ยฐ S, 36.8147ยฐ E
3.01M
2
Mombasa
Coast
4.0381ยฐ S, 39.6880ยฐ E
882K
3
Eldoret
Rift Valley
0.5200ยฐ N, 35.2700ยฐ E
353.38K
4
Meru
Eastern
0.0600ยฐ N, 37.6400ยฐ E
47.23K
๐ Peaks
Mount Kenya
5,199 m
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Kenya.