Kenya is formally the Republic of Kenya, a nation in Eastern Africa. At 580,367 square kilometres (224,081 sq mi), Kenya is the globe’s 48th biggest country by area. With a population of greater than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, Kenya is the 29th most populous country on the planet. Kenya’s resources and also largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest, presently second biggest city, and very first resources is the coastal city of Mombasa.

Kisumu City is the third-largest city and likewise an inland port on Lake Victoria. Other crucial urban centres include Nakuru as well as Eldoret. Since 2020, Kenya is the third-largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria as well as South Africa. Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the eastern, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, as well as the Indian Ocean to the southeast.

Its geography, environment and population vary widely, varying from cool snow-capped mountaintops (Batian, Nelion and also Point Lenana on Mount Kenya) with vast bordering woodlands, wild animals as well as abundant farming regions to temperate environments in western and also rift valley areas and dry less productive arid and semi-arid areas and also absolute deserts (Chalbi Desert as well as Nyiri Desert).

Kenya’s earliest residents were hunter-gatherers, like the contemporary Hadza individuals. According to historical dating of connected artefacts and also skeletal material, Cushitic speakers very first resolved in Kenya’s bogs in between 3,200 and also 1,300 BC, a phase known as the Lowland Savanna Pastoral Neolithic.

Nilotic-speaking pastoralists (genealogical to Kenya’s Nilotic audio speakers) began migrating from contemporary South Sudan into Kenya around 500 BC. Bantu individuals cleared up at the shore and the interior in between 250 BC and also 500 AD. European call started in 1500 advertisement with the Portuguese Empire, and also efficient colonisation of Kenya started in the 19th century throughout the European expedition of the interior.

Modern Kenya emerged from a protectorate established by the British Realm in 1895 and the succeeding Kenya Swarm, which started in 1920. Various disputes in between the UK as well as the colony resulted in the Mau revolution, which started in 1952, and the declaration in 1963. After freedom, Kenya stayed a participant of the Commonwealth of Nations. The current constitution was embraced in 2010 to change the 1963 self-reliance constitution.