Here are some random facts about Kenya, just the basics.
- The capital is Nairobi (The school I’m gone go to is just a couple of kilometers from there)
- Biggest cities are Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu
- Administrational division: 7 provinces and one area; Central, Coast, East, North East, Rift Valley, Western and the Nairobi area.
- Adjacent to Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia
- Kenya is about 580 400 square kilometers (about two and a half times the size of Brittan).
- Official language is English and Swahili (witch I will study at school and hopefully be able to learn)
- Kenya’s currency is Kenyan shilling (KES)
- Kenya has now a population of about 39 million people. The growth rate of the country’s population was for many years the highest in the world but has started to stabilize.
- 67 pers/km2 (Sverige: 20 pers/km2)
- Population growth rate 2,7 % (Sweden has a population growth rate at 0,185 %)
- Total fertility rate 4,7 children per woman (Sweden’s fertility rate is 1,67 children per woman)
- 22% of the population is living in the cities (in Sweden 85%)
- There are more than 40 different ethnical groups in Kenya, the biggest being: Kikuyu 22%, Luyha 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11% other African ethnical groups 15% and not African groups (Asian, European, Arabic) 1 %.
- Kenya regained independence in 1963 after almost 80 years of being occupied and ruled by Brittan.
- Kenya is a republic and a multiparty democracy ruled by a “Grand Coalition” of parties.
- President Mwai Kibaki
- Prime minister Raila Odinga
- Kenya has a huge debt burden currently at nearly 7 billion dollars (about 5516 million Swedish kr). Every month Kenya spends as mush on servicing its debt as it spends on health care for a whole year.
- Highest point is Mount Kenya witch is 5199 meters
- Oldest town is Lamu (I'll visit Lamu with my parents around Christmas)
- Numbers of times Kenya didn’t win the Olympic steeplechase = None
// Seriously I don’t know anything about this country //
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