Country name: Republic of Kenya/Republic OF Kenya
Climate: tropisch (coast), semiarid and arid (the north, northeast), subtropically (high country/center)
Sitution: 34 - for 42 degrees more east be enough, 5 degrees more north up to 5 degrees southern latitude
Size: 582,646 qkm
Capital: (Number of inhabitants): Nairobi (about 3 million)
Bevölkerung: 31.5 millions
Language: English, Kiswahili
Religion/churches: 70_ Christian (26.5 _ Anglikaner, 26.4 _ catholics, 2.5 _ orthodox ones); many also evangelikal engages, numerous “sects” like the Pfingstler, which represents the third biggest Christian community according to last estimations in the meantime in terms of figures; 20 _ Muslims, 10 _ nature religions; furthermore Hindus, Jains, Sikhs
Nationaltag: 12. December (independence day)
Unabhängigkeit: 12. December 1963
Staatsform/Regierungsform: Prasidialdemokratie
Staatsoberhaupt: Staatsprasident (simultaneous Commanders-in-Chief of the Streitkrafte) HE hone. Mwai Kibaki
Representative: Vizeprasident hone. Stephen Kalonzo MUSYOKA (since 08.01.2008)
Parlament: Hone. Kenneth Otiato Marende (since 15.01.2008). Last Parlamentswahlen: 27.12.2007
Bruttoinlandsprodukt (Gross Domestic Product): approx. 19.4 billion EUR
Prokopf-BIP: approx. 492 USD
Exchange rate (August 2008): 1 Pound = 120 Kenya Shilling (KSH)