Kenya, the Indian Ocean is an east African country. In southern Tanzania, Uganda to the west, northwest Sudan, northern Ethiopia and Somalia in the east to the northwest. Nairobi.
Geographical coordinates: 1 00 N, 38 00 E
Boundaries: total: 3.446 km
Border countries: Ethiopia 830 km, Somalia 682 km, Sudan 232 km, Tanzania 769 km, Uganda 933 km
Coastline: 536 km
Climate: tropical in coastal, inland desert climate prevails.
Height above sea level: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Kenya, 5.199 m
Natural resources: gold, limestone, soda ash, salt, hydropower, wildlife
Irrigated land: 660 sq km (1993 est.)
Natural disasters: drought and floods
From the prehistoric era of dinosaurs and crocodile fossils have a lot in the country, the oldest fossil remains belong to 200 million years ago. The oldest human fossils have been found around Lake Turkana in Kenya.
BC The people who migrated from north Africa in 2000 lerde have settled in Kenya. Anno Domini 1. century, Arab traders in the business of visits made to the Kenyan coast, MS 8. century, Arab and Persian settlements in coastal Kenya has ever duplicated.
Anno Domini 10. century, three quarters of the population in Kenya these days Nilotic and Bantu peoples constitute emigrated to Kenya. This has occurred in Swahili. A Bantu language with many Arabic word Swahili is.
Kikuyu'lar Kenya's largest ethnic group [2] 25ini% of the population creates intense around the capital Nairobi and the lives of political power traditionally has been holding the group.
Traditional clothing in a Kikuyu'lu kadın.Luhya 's [3] constitute the country's second largest ethnic group. Kenya Uganda border in the west live in the southern part.