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thumb|300px|A United Nations map of Kenya

thumb|Location of Kenya

The Geography of Kenya is diverse, varying amongst its 47 counties. Kenya has a coastline on the Indian Ocean, which contains swamps of East African mangroves. Inland are broad plains and numerous hills. Kenya borders South Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, and Ethiopia to the north. Kenya currently faces border disputes with South Sudan over the Ilemi Triangle and with Somalia over Jubbaland which, if the Somalian Government gives it up, could be a new part of Kenya and would bring the total land area of Kenya to approximately 692,939 km<sup>2</sup>.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley and central Province home to the highest mountain, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon on the border between Kenya and Uganda. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is a relic of an East African rainforest. Much bigger is Mau Forest, the largest forest complex in East Africa.

Geography

Location

  • Eastern Africa on the Indian Ocean coast between Somalia and Tanzania
  • Geographic coordinates:

Area

  • Total:
  • Land:
  • Water:

; Area comparative

:* Australia comparative: approximately the size of New South Wales

:* Canada comparative: slightly smaller than Saskatchewan

:* United Kingdom comparative: approximately 2 times the size of the United Kingdom

:* United States comparative: approximately twice the size of Arizona

:* EU comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Italy

Land boundaries

  • Total:
  • Border countries: Ethiopia , Somalia , South Sudan , Tanzania , Uganda

Coastline

  • 490&nbsp;km (300&nbsp;mi) along the Indian Ocean.

Maritime claims

  • Territorial sea:
  • Exclusive economic zone: and
  • Continental shelf: 200&nbsp;m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Geology

Much of the western two-thirds of the country consists of the Pliocene–Pleistocene volcanics deposited on Precambrian basement rocks. The southeast corner of the country is underlain by sediments of the Karoo System of Permian to Late Triassic age and a strip of Jurassic age sediments along the coast in the Mombasa area.

Climate

thumb|300px|Köppen climate classification map of Kenya

The climate of Kenya varies by location, from mostly cool every day, to always warm/hot by mid afternoon.

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|bgcolor=#3fbf86|0101||Temperature<br>Average F||81.7||82.6||82.9||81.7||79.2||76.6||75.2||75.2||76.5||78.3||80.4||81.3||79.3

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|bgcolor=##3fbf86|0201||bgcolor=#FFFFFF|Temperature<br>High value F||91.8||92.7||92.7||90.5||87.6||bgcolor=#EEEE77|84.9||bgcolor=#EEEE77|83.7||bgcolor=#EEEE77|83.8||bgcolor=#EEEE77|85.5||86.9||88.9||91||88.3

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|bgcolor=#E7E7E7|0301||bgcolor=#FFFFFF|Temperature<br>Low value F||71.6||72.5||73.2||72.9||70.9||bgcolor=#EECCFF|68.2||bgcolor=#EEBBFF|66.7||bgcolor=#EEBBFF|66.7||bgcolor=#EECCFF|67.5||bgcolor=#EECCFF|69.6||71.8||71.6||70.3

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|bgcolor=#E7E7E7|0615||Precipitation<br>in inches