Kenya (ken)

Kenya

Kenya ranks 714th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Suwon, Kaduna, and Luoyang. Memorable people born in Kenya include William Ruto, Brimin Kipruto, and William Tanui. Memorable people who died in Kenya include Richard Leakey, and Paul Kipkoech. Kenya has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many anthropologists, and athletes. Kenya is located in Kenya.

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, Kenya is the 28th-most-populous country in the world and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second-largest city, is the major port city of Mombasa, situated on Mombasa Island in the Indian Ocean and the surrounding mainland. Mombasa was the capital of the British East Africa Protectorate, which included most of what is now Kenya and southwestern Somalia, from 1889 to 1907. Other important cities include Kisumu and Nakuru. 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. Read more on Wikipedia