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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 the7th 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 asChalbi 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 Film poster Nairobi Half Life (Swahili:Nusu Maisha ya Nairobi) is a 2012 Kenyandrama film directed by David "Tosh" Gitonga. The film was selected as the Kenyan entry for theBest Foreign Language Oscar at the85th Academy Awards but did not make it to the final shortlist. It was the first timeKenya had submitted a film in this category. At the 33rdDurban International Film Festival, Joseph Wairimu won the award for Best Actor. He also won theAfrica Movie Academy Award for Most Promising Actor from theAwards 9th ceremony. It won the most awards atAfrica Magic Viewers Choice Awards 2014. (Full article...) Selected picture -show another TheEast African Railways 59 ClassGarratt was the largest, heaviest and most powerful steam locomotive to operate on any metre gauge railway in the world. Thirty-four of these oil-fired locomotives were supplied to EAR in 1955-56 byBeyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd of Manchester. Selected location -show another
Nakuru is capital ofKenya'sNakuru County. It is the largest urban centre in midwestern Kenya with 307,990 inhabitants and the fourth largest urban centre in the country. It lies about 1850 m above sea level.(Read more...)
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