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Location: Africa
Capital: Nairobi (1.500.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Mombasa, Kisumu, Malindi, Nakuru
Population: 30,080,000
Area: 582,646 km2
Coin: 1 Kenya shilling = 100 cents
Languages: Swahili, English
Religions: Animist, Roman Catholic, Moslem, Protestant
The Independence's Year: 1963
Mountains: Mt. Kenya (5199 m.), Mt. Elgon (4321 m.), Mt. Subugo
Lakes: Turkana, Victoria
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It is the country more westernized of oriental Africa, above all to Nairobi and along the 400 kilometers of the coast that overlooks the Indian ocean, where between Malindi and Mombasa there are so many tourist villages, great hotels and nighttime places. But on the mountain climb of the Kenya Mount (mt 5.199) and the Elgon Mount; in the pit of the Lake Turkana and along the Great Rift Valley; among the pink flamingos of the Lake Nakuru and in the 25 thousand Kmqs of the great national parks of Tsavo, Amboseli and Masai Mara it is true Africa, with wild nature, great landscapes and million of animals to the wild state.
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