Kenya

Kenya in is a pearl in sub-Saharan Africa. From the scenic sandy beaches at the coast, to the , to the majestic Rift Valley, the bird life in Lake Naivasha, the hot boiling springs of Lake Baringo, and Lake Victoria, Kenya is a very beautiful country with lots of wildlife and scenic features, and is one of the major economic hubs in .
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is the region of Kenya bordering the Indian Ocean.

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is a region of Kenya and includes Nyanza and Western provinces of the same name.

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is a region of Kenya bordering and .

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Kenya

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Latitude of center
0.83° or 0° 49′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
38° east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313903
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
192950
Wiki­data ID
Q114

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Kenya” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Кениа”
  • Abkhazian: “Кениа”
  • Achinese: “Kenya”
  • Adyghe: “Кение”
  • Afrikaans: “Kenia”
  • Akan: “Kɛnya”
  • Albanian: “Kenia”
  • Amharic: “ኬንያ”
  • Amis: “Kenya”
  • Angika: “केन्या”
  • Arabic: “كينيا”
  • Aragonese: “Kenia”
  • Aragonese: “Kenya”
  • Armenian: “Քենիա”
  • Arpitan: “Kenia”
  • Arpitan: “Kènya”
  • Assamese: “কেনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Keña”
  • Asturian: “Kenia”
  • Atayal: “Kenya”
  • Awadhi: “केन्या”
  • Aymara: “Kinya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keniya”
  • Balinese: “Kenya”
  • Bambara: “Keniya”
  • Bambara: “Kenya”
  • Banjar: “Kenya”
  • Bashkir: “Кения”
  • Basque: “Kenia”
  • Basque: “Kenya”
  • Bavarian: “Kenia”
  • Belarusian: “Кенія”
  • Bengali: “কেনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Kénia”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीनिया रिपब्लिक”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीनिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीन्या”
  • Bhojpuri: “केन्या”
  • Bhojpuri: “रिपब्लिक ऑफ कीनिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “কেনিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Kenia”
  • Bole: “Kenya”
  • Bosnian: “Kenija”
  • Breton: “Kenya”
  • Bulgarian: “Кения”
  • Burmese: “ကင်ညာ”
  • Burmese: “ကင်ညာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Kènia”
  • Catalan: “Kenya”
  • Catalan: “Kènya”
  • Catalan: “República de Kenya”
  • Cebuano: “Kenya”
  • Central Bikol: “Kenya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kenya”
  • Central Kurdish: “کینیا”
  • Chavacano: “Kenia”
  • Chechen: “Кени”
  • Chinese: “Kěnníyà”
  • Chinese: “肯亞”
  • Chinese: “肯亞共和國”
  • Chinese: “肯尼亚”
  • Chinese: “肯尼亚共和国”
  • Chinese: “肯尼亞”
  • Chinese: “肯雅”
  • Chinese: “肯雅共和国”
  • Chinese: “肯雅共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Кени”
  • Cornish: “Kenya”
  • Corsican: “Kenia”
  • Corsican: “Quènia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Keniya”
  • Croatian: “Kenija”
  • Czech: “Keňa”
  • Dagbani: “Kenya”
  • Danish: “Kenya”
  • Dhivehi: “ކެންޔާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kenya”
  • Dinka: “Kenya”
  • Dotyali: “केन्या”
  • Dutch: “Kenia”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Kenia”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེ་ནི་ཡ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེན་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེན་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кений”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كينيا”
  • Erzya: “Кения”
  • Esperanto: “Kenjo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Kenjo”
  • Estonian: “Keenia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Keenia”
  • Estonian: “Kenya Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Kenya”
  • Ewe: “Kenia”
  • Ewe: “Kenya nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Quénia”
  • Farefare: “Kenya”
  • Faroese: “Kenja”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kenya”
  • Finnish: “Kenia”
  • Finnish: “Kenian tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Kenyàtò”
  • French: “Kenya”
  • French: “Kénya”
  • French: “la République du Kenya”
  • Fulah: “Keñaa”
  • Fulah: “Keniya”
  • Fulah: “Kenya”
  • Ga: “Kenya”
  • Gagauz: “Keniya”
  • Galician: “Kenya”
  • Galician: “Quenia”
  • Galician: “República de Kenya”
  • Galician: “República de Quenia”
  • Ganda: “Kenya”
  • Ganda: “Republic ya Namibia”
  • Georgian: “კენია”
  • German: “Kenia”
  • German: “Republik Kenia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kenya”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Kenya”
  • Gilaki: “کنيا”
  • Goan Konkani: “केनिया”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Κένυας”
  • Greek: “Κένυα”
  • Guarani: “Kéña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kénya”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્યા”
  • Haitian: “Kenya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kenya”
  • Hausa: “Kenya”
  • Hawaiian: “Kenia”
  • Hebrew: “קניה”
  • Hindi: “कीनिया”
  • Hindi: “केन्या”
  • Hungarian: “Kenya”
  • Hungarian: “Kenyai Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Kenya”
  • Icelandic: “Kenía”
  • Icelandic: “Kenýa”
  • Ido: “Kenia”
  • Igbo: “Kenya”
  • Iloko: “Kenya”
  • Inari Sami: “Kenia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Kenia”
  • Indonesian: “Kenya”
  • Interlingua: “Kenya”
  • Interlingue: “Kenia”
  • Irish: “an Chéinia”
  • Irish: “An Chéinia”
  • Italian: “Chenia”
  • Italian: “Kenia”
  • Italian: “Kenya”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kenia”
  • Japanese: “Kenia”
  • Japanese: “ケニア”
  • Japanese: “ケニア共和国”
  • Japanese: “ケニヤ”
  • Javanese: “Kenya”
  • Javanese: “Kénya”
  • Jju: “Kenya”
  • Kabiyè: “Keniya”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Kénia”
  • Kabyle: “Kenya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kenya”
  • Kalmyk: “Кенимудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೀನ್ಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Keniya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kenya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кения”
  • Karekare: “Kenya”
  • Kashmiri: “کِنیا”
  • Kashmiri: “کینیا”
  • Kashubian: “Keniô”
  • Kazakh: “Кения”
  • Khmer: “កេនយ៉ា”
  • Kikuyu: “Kenya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kenya”
  • Kirghiz: “Кения”
  • Komering: “Kenya”
  • Kongo: “Kenya”
  • Korean: “케냐”
  • Korean: “케니아”
  • Korean: “케니아공화국”
  • Kotava: “Kenya”
  • Kurdish: “Kenya”
  • Ladin: “Kenia”
  • Ladino: “Kenia”
  • Lao: “ເຄນຢາ”
  • Latgalian: “Keneja”
  • Latin: “Kenia”
  • Latvian: “Kenija”
  • Latvian: “Kenijas Republika”
  • Lezghian: “Кения”
  • Ligurian: “Kenya”
  • Limburgan: “Kenia”
  • Lingala: “Kenya”
  • Lingala: “Kénya”
  • Lingala: “Kɛnya”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cenia”
  • Literary Chinese: “肯亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Kenija”
  • Livvi: “Kenii”
  • Lojban: “kenias”
  • Lojban: “la kenias”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdeku’e”
  • Lombard: “Kenya”
  • Low German: “Kenia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kenia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kenija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kenya”
  • Lule Sami: “Kænnja”
  • Lule Sami: “Kännja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kenia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kenia”
  • Macedonian: “Кенија”
  • Madurese: “Kenya”
  • Magahi: “केनिया”
  • Magahi: “केन्या”
  • Maithili: “केन्या”
  • Malagasy: “Kenia”
  • Malagasy: “Kenià”
  • Malagasy: “Kenya”
  • Malay: “Kenya”
  • Malay: “کيڽا”
  • Malayalam: “കെനിയ”
  • Maltese: “il-Kenja”
  • Maltese: “Kenja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Kenja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯅ꯭ꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “ke”
  • Manx: “Keinney”
  • Manx: “Kenya”
  • Manx: “Keyney”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Cheinney”
  • Manx: “y Cheinney”
  • Manx: “y Cheyney”
  • Manx: “Yn Cheinney”
  • Maori: “Kenia”
  • Maori: “Kēnia”
  • Marathi: “केनिया”
  • Marathi: “केन्या”
  • Mazanderani: “کنیا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “كينيا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kenya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kenya”
  • Minangkabau: “Kenya”
  • Mingrelian: “კენია”
  • Mirandese: “Quénia”
  • Moksha: “Кэния”
  • Mongolian: “Кени”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كينيا”
  • Mossi: “Kenya”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߋߣߌߦߊ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߋߣߌ߲ߦߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Keniya”
  • Navajo: “Dził Dah Gai Biyaagi Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Kenya”
  • Nepali: “केन्या”
  • Newari: “केन्या”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Kenya”
  • North Ndebele: “Khenya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Keenia”
  • Northern Luri: “کنیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Kenia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Kenia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kenya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Kenya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kenya”
  • Norwegian: “Kenya”
  • Novial: “Kenya”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kenya”
  • Obolo: “Kenya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kenya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cenia”
  • Oriya: “କେନିଆ”
  • Oriya: “କେନିୟା”
  • Oromo: “Keeniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Кени”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ကိဉ်ညာခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “केन्या”
  • Pampanga: “Kenya”
  • Pangasinan: “Kenia”
  • Pangasinan: “Kenya”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੀਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Kenia”
  • Pedi: “Kenya”
  • Persian: “کنیا”
  • Piemontese: “Chenia”
  • Piemontese: “Kenya”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Keniia”
  • Polish: “Kenia”
  • Portuguese: “Quenia”
  • Portuguese: “Quénia”
  • Portuguese: “Quênia”
  • Portuguese: “Republica do Quenia”
  • Portuguese: “República do Quénia”
  • Portuguese: “República do Quênia”
  • Pushto: “کینیا”
  • Pushto: “کېنيا”
  • Quechua: “Kenia”
  • Quechua: “Kinya”
  • Rakhine: “ကင်ညာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Kenya”
  • Romanian: “Republica Kenya”
  • Romansh: “Kenia”
  • Rundi: “Kenya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кени”
  • Russian: “Кения”
  • Russian: “Республика Кения”
  • Rusyn: “Кенія”
  • Sakizaya: “Kenya”
  • Samoan: “Kenya”
  • Samogitian: “Kenėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Kėnėjė”
  • Sango: “Kenyäa”
  • Sanskrit: “केन्या”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Kenya”
  • Sardinian: “Kènya”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kenia”
  • Scots: “Kenyae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A Cheinia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Cheinia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Cheinia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ceinia”
  • Serbian: “Kenija”
  • Serbian: “Кенија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kenija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶႅၼ်ႇၺႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Kenya”
  • Sicilian: “Kenya”
  • Silesian: “Kyńijo”
  • Sindhi: “ڪينيا”
  • Sinhala: “කෙන්යාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kenia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kenia”
  • Slovak: “Keňa”
  • Slovak: “Kenská republika”
  • Slovenian: “ke”
  • Slovenian: “Kenija”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Kenija”
  • Somali: “Kenya”
  • Somali: “Kiinya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کنیا”
  • South Ndebele: “I-Kenya”
  • South Ndebele: “Kenya”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kenya”
  • Spanish: “Kenia”
  • Spanish: “Kenya”
  • Spanish: “República de Kenia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵉⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Kénya”
  • Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Kenya”
  • Swahili: “ke”
  • Swahili: “Kenya”
  • Swati: “IKheniya”
  • Swedish: “Kenya”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Kenya”
  • Swiss German: “Kenia”
  • Tachelhit: “Kinya”
  • Tagalog: “Kenya”
  • Tajik: “Кения”
  • Talysh: “Kenijə”
  • Talysh: “Kenya”
  • Tamil: “கென்யா”
  • Taroko: “Kenya”
  • Tatar: “Кения”
  • Telugu: “కెన్యా”
  • Thai: “เคนยา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเคนยา”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེན་ཉི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኬንያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kenya”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Keniā”
  • Tsonga: “Kenya”
  • Tsonga: “Khenya”
  • Tswana: “Kenya”
  • Tumbuka: “Kenya”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “كينيا”
  • Turkish: “Kenya”
  • Turkmen: “Keniýa”
  • Twi: “Kenya”
  • Tyap: “Kenya”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Kenya”
  • Udmurt: “Кения”
  • Uighur: “كېنىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенія”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Кенія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kenia”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kenija”
  • Urdu: “کینیا”
  • Uzbek: “Keniya”
  • Venetian: “Kénia”
  • Venetian: “Kenya”
  • Veps: “Kenii”
  • Veps: “Kenijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Kenya”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Kenya”
  • Vietnamese: “Kê-ni-a (Kenya)”
  • Vietnamese: “Kê-ni-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Kenya”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kenya”
  • Volapük: “Kenyän”
  • Võro: “Kenya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kenya”
  • Welsh: “Cenia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Cenia”
  • Welsh: “Kenya”
  • Western Armenian: “Քենիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Kenia”
  • Western Frisian: “Kenya”
  • Western Mari: “Кени”
  • Western Panjabi: “کینیا”
  • Wolof: “Keeña”
  • Wolof: “Keeñaa”
  • Wu Chinese: “肯尼亚”
  • Yakut: “Кения”
  • Yiddish: “קעניע”
  • Yoruba: “Kenya”
  • Yoruba: “Kẹ́nyà”
  • Yue Chinese: “肯雅”
  • Zeeuws: “Kenia”
  • Zhuang: “Kenya”
  • Zulu: “i-Kenya”
  • Zulu: “IKenya”
  • Zulu: “IKhenya”
  • “KEN”
  • “Keniah”
  • “Keniah Axkayotl”
  • “ma Kenja”

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