56 Facts About Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa.

Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast.

European contact began in 1500 AD with the Portuguese Empire, and effective colonisation of Kenya began in the 19th century during the European exploration of the interior.

Kenya is a presidential representative democratic republic, in which elected officials represent the people and the president is the head of state and government.

Kenya is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, COMESA, International Criminal Court, as well as other international organisations.

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Kenya's economy is the largest in eastern and central Africa, with Nairobi serving as a major regional commercial hub.

Kenya is a member of the East African Community trade bloc, though some international trade organisations categorise it as part of the Greater Horn of Africa.

Kenya, call it Kirima Kirinyaga in Kikuyu, while the Embu call it "Kirenyaa".

Fossils found in Kenya have shown that primates inhabited the area for more than 20 million years.

East Africa, including Kenya, is one of the earliest regions where modern humans are believed to have lived.

Nilotic groups in Kenya include the Kalenjin, Samburu, Luo, Turkana, and Maasai.

Bantu groups in Kenya include the Kikuyu, Luhya, Kamba, Kisii, Meru, Kuria, Aembu, Ambeere, Wadawida-Watuweta, Wapokomo, and Mijikenda, among others.

Notable prehistoric sites in the interior of Kenya include the site Namoratunga on the west side of Lake Turkana and the walled settlement of Thimlich Ohinga in Migori County.

Kenya eventually surrendered in Northern Rhodesia 14 days after the Armistice was signed in 1918.

Kenya's was crowned Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in 1953 and as British hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett put it, she went up a tree in Africa a princess and came down a queen.

From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was in a state of emergency arising from the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule.

Kenya's family used his presidential position to circumvent legal or administrative obstacles to acquiring property.

In 1991, Kenya transitioned to a multiparty political system after 26 years of single-party rule.

Kenya's win was strongly criticised by his major opponents, Kibaki and Odinga, as fraudulent.

In July 2010, Kenya partnered with other East African countries to form the new East African Common Market within the East African Community.

In 2011, Kenya began sending troops to Somalia to fight the terror group Al-Shabaab.

Climate change in Kenya is increasingly impacting the lives of Kenya's citizens and the environment.

Kenya has considerable land area devoted to wildlife habitats, including the Masai Mara, where blue wildebeest and other bovids participate in a large-scale annual migration.

Kenya had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 4.

Kenya is a presidential representative democratic republic with a multi-party system.

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Kenya has high levels of corruption according to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, a metric which attempts to gauge the prevalence of public-sector corruption in various countries.

In December 2002, Kenya held democratic and open elections, which were judged free and fair by most international observers.

Kenya has close ties with its fellow Swahili-speaking neighbours in the African Great Lakes region.

Kenya is one of the most pro-American nations in Africa, and the wider world.

British Army Training Unit Kenya is used for the training of British infantry battalions in the arid and rugged terrain of the Great Rift Valley.

Kenya is divided into 47 semi-autonomous counties that are headed by governors.

In 2017, Kenya ranked 92nd in the World Bank ease of doing business rating from 113rd in 2016 .

Kenya is usually classified as a frontier market or occasionally an emerging market, but it is not one of the least developed countries.

Kenya has a more developed financial services sector than its neighbours.

Tourism in Kenya is the second-largest source of foreign exchange revenue following agriculture.

Kenya has not attained the level of investment and efficiency in agriculture that can guarantee food security, and coupled with resulting poverty, a significant portion of the population regularly starves and is heavily dependent on food aid.

Kenya has an oil refinery that processes imported crude petroleum into petroleum products, mainly for the domestic market.

Deal allowed for China's state-controlled offshore oil and gas company, CNOOC, to prospect for oil in Kenya, which is just beginning to drill its first exploratory wells on the borders of Sudan and the disputed area of North Eastern Province, on the border with Somalia and in coastal waters.

Kenya has ratified Convention No 81 on labour inspection in industries and Convention No 129 on labour inspection in agriculture.

Kenya had a population of approximately 48 million in January 2017.

Kenya has a diverse population that includes many of Africa's major ethnoracial and linguistic groups.

The North Eastern Province of Kenya, formerly known as NFD, is predominantly inhabited by the indigenous ethnic Somalis.

Kenya'sng is a Kiswahili-based cant spoken in some urban areas.

Kenya is currently grappling with a large number of unemployed health care providers many of whom are under-utilised, underemployed or not practicing.

Kenya is a major regional transit route and destination for counterfeit medications and other health products.

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Kenya had an estimated 15 million cases of malaria in 2006.

Public universities in Kenya are highly commercialised institutions and only a small fraction of qualified high school graduates are admitted on limited government-sponsorship into programs of their choice.

Additionally, Kenya has an extensive music, television, and theatre scene.

Kenya has a number of media outlets that broadcast domestically and globally.

Kenya has nurtured emerging versatile authors such as Paul Kipchumba who demonstrate a pan-African outlook.

Kenya has a diverse assortment of popular music forms, in addition to multiple types of folk music based on the variety of over 40 regional languages.

Kenya is active in several sports, among them cricket, rallying, football, rugby, field hockey, and boxing.

Kenya won several medals during the Beijing Olympics: six gold, four silver, and four bronze, making it Africa's most successful nation in the 2008 Olympics.

Kenya has been a dominant force in women's volleyball within Africa, with both the clubs and the national team winning various continental championships in the past decade.

Kenya is represented by Lucas Onyango as a professional rugby league player who plays with the English club Oldham.

In western Kenya, among the Luo, fish is a common dish; among the Kalenjin, who dominate much of the Rift Valley Region, mursik—sour milk—is a common drink.