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Wikipedia portal for content related to Kenya Introduction.svg)  Kenya, officially theRepublic of Kenya, is a country located inEast Africa. With an estimated population of more than 53.3 million as of mid-2025, Kenya is the27th-most populous country in the world and theseventh-most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city isNairobi. The second-largest and oldest city isMombasa, a major port city located onMombasa Island. Other major cities within the country includeKisumu,Nakuru andEldoret. Going clockwise, Kenya is bordered bySouth Sudan to the northwest (though much of that border includes the disputedIlemi Triangle),Ethiopia to the north,Somalia to the east, theIndian Ocean to the southeast,Tanzania to the southwest, andLake Victoria andUganda to the west. Kenya'sgeography,climate andpopulation vary widely. In western Rift Valley counties, the landscape includes cold, snow-capped mountaintops (such as Batian, Nelion, and Point Lenana onMount Kenya) with vast surrounding forests, wildlife, and fertile agricultural regions in temperate climates. In other areas there are dry,arid, andsemi-arid climates, as well as absolute deserts (such as theChalbi Desert andNyiri Desert). Kenya's earliest inhabitants included some of the first humans to evolve from ancestral members of the genusHomo. Ample fossil evidence for this evolutionary history has been found atKoobi Fora. Later, Kenya was inhabited byhunter-gatherers similar to the present-dayHadza people. According to archaeological dating of associated artifacts and skeletal material,Cushitic speakers first settled in the region's lowlands between 3,200 and 1,300 BC, a phase known as the LowlandSavanna Pastoral Neolithic.Nilotic-speakingpastoralists (ancestral to Kenya's Nilotic speakers) began migrating from present-daySouth Sudan into Kenya around 500 BC.Bantu people settled at the coast and the interior between 250 BC and 500 AD. European contact began in 1500 AD with thePortuguese Empire, and effective colonisation of Kenya began in the 19th century during theEuropean exploration of Africa. Modern-day Kenya emerged froma protectorate, established by theBritish Empire in 1895, and the subsequentKenya Colony, which began in 1920. Mombasa was the capital of theBritish East Africa Protectorate, which included most of what is now Kenya and southwestern Somalia, from 1889 to 1907. Numerous disputes between the UK and the colony led to theMau Mau revolution, which began in 1952, and the declaration of Kenya's independence in 1963. After independence, Kenya remained a member of theCommonwealth of Nations. The country'scurrent constitution was adopted in 2010, replacing the previous1963 constitution. (Full article...) Selected article -show another.jpg) The hotel in 2025 TheStanley Hotel (currently called theSarova Stanley) is afive-star hotel inNairobi, Kenya. It is the first luxury hotel in Nairobi, having been established in 1902 by English businesswoman Mayence Bent, when the city was a railway halt. It is named after SirHenry Morton Stanley, a Welsh explorer who is best known for his explorations of central Africa and his successful search for missionary and explorerDavid Livingstone. Since the early 1900s, the Stanley Hotel has been known as the traditional meeting place for those going onsafari in Kenya. It has played host to royalty, politicians, movie stars, and authors. It is still used for national business conferences and tourism activities. (Full article...) Selected picture -show anotherSelected location -show another Kisumu is aport city inKisumu County,Kenya at 1,131 m (3,711 ft), with a population of 394,684 (2009 census). It is the third largest city in Kenya, the largest city in western Kenya and the headquarters ofKisumu County. It is the second most important city afterKampala in the greaterLake Victoria basin. The port was founded in 1901 as the main inland terminal of theUganda Railway and named Port Florence. Although trade stagnated in the 1980s and 1990s, it is again growing around oil exports. Kisumu literally means a place of barter trade "sumo".(Read more...)
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