Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Nairobi
- Region
- Africa, Eastern Africa
- Population
- 57,532,493 (2025)
- Area
- 582,650 km²
- Currency
- Kenyan shilling (KES)
- Languages
- English, Swahili (macrolanguage)
- Calling code
- +254
- Internet domain
- .ke
- ISO codes
- KE, KEN, 404
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Kenya covers about 582,650 square kilometres. By area it ranks 49th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Madagascar and a little larger than France. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda. Its centre lies at about 1° north, 38° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 57.5 million people live in Kenya (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 26th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.7 percent of the world's people. On average there are 99 people to each square kilometre. About 32 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 64 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, Swahili (macrolanguage). A person from Kenya is called Kenyan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Kenyan shilling (code KES, symbol Sh). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 136 billion (2025), which is about US$ 2,363 for each person (2025).
Time
Kenya uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Africa/Nairobi). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Nairobi | 4,397,073 |
| Kakamega | 1,867,579 |
| Mombasa | 1,208,333 |
| Nakuru | 570,674 |
| Ruiru | 490,120 |
| Eldoret | 475,716 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Eastern Africa
British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.