Kenya
Kenya (officially Republic of Kenya) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Nairobi, and is home to roughly 56.4M people.
Its official languages are English, Swahili; the currency in circulation is Kenyan shilling (Sh); people from here are called Kenyan.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »The Great Rift Valley runs the length of the country.
- »The annual wildebeest migration through the Maasai Mara is among the largest movements of land animals on Earth.
> THE OUTLINE_
Kenya straddles the equator.
> BORDERS_
Kenya touches five neighbours: Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, South Sudan to the northwest, Tanzania to the southwest and Uganda to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Nairobi began as a railway depot in 1899. It is the only capital in the world with a national park inside its boundaries, where lions and rhinos live within sight of the skyline.
> SCALE_
595,492 km² (229,921 sq mi), 43rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Madagascar.
Population 56,432,944, 26th of 198 on file. That averages 95 per km² (245 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
A Maasai shield and two spears over black, red and green, black for the people, red for blood shed for freedom, green for the land.