Everything you need to know about Kenya
Explore Kenya from Nairobi and the central highlands to Lake Victoria, the dry north and the Swahili towns of the Indian Ocean coast. Learn its counties and cities, discover the history and everyday life behind the places, then practise Swahili. Kiswahili and English are official languages, alongside many community languages used across the country.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Kenya
The equator, cool highlands, a rift valley and two very different lake shores.
Know the shape of the country
Start with all 47 counties, then place twenty selected cities and towns and find five waters: Lake Turkana, Lake Victoria, Masinga Reservoir, the Tana River and the Indian Ocean. Zoom in around Nairobi and the smaller western counties. These are generalised learning maps. County boundaries: geoBoundaries, RCMRD, public domain, 2020. Waters: Natural Earth, public domain. Shared lakes are shown in full; the ocean area does not represent maritime claims.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Safari
Maasai Mara
The great migration crosses the Mara River between July and October. Lions and cheetahs hunt the plains all year.
Go on safari in the Maasai Mara and Amboseli, then add the Rift Valley lakes and the Swahili coast. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Swahili with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Kenya, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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