Eastern Africa
Flag of Kenya
Where humanity took its first steps.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #000000 29%
- #006000 28%
- #a80000 27%
- #f0f0f0 8%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Flags people confuse it with
Kenya in numbers
| Official name | Republic of Kenya |
|---|---|
| Capital | Nairobi |
| Region | Eastern Africa, Africa |
| Population | 53,771,300 |
| Area | 580,367 km² · 93 people per km² |
| Currency | Kenyan shilling (KES) |
| Languages | English, Swahili |
| Country codes | KE · KEN · .ke |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- The Great Rift Valley slices through the country, a vast geological scar where the African continent is slowly tearing itself apart.
- Each year over a million wildebeest and zebra thunder across the Mara River in one of the planet's largest overland animal migrations.
- Mount Kenya, the mountain that gave the country its name, wears glaciers on its peaks despite sitting almost exactly on the equator.
Did you know
Near Lake Turkana scientists unearthed Turkana Boy, the remarkably complete skeleton of a Homo erectus youth who lived roughly 1.6 million years ago.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.