• Formerly a British colony, Kenya gained independence in 1963 and has been a republic since 1964.
• The country has a varied landscape of plateaus and high mountains.
• The climate ranges from arid to semi-arid and only 18% of its 600,000 square km is arable.
• Eldoret all but sits on the equator, which virtually divides Kenya in half.
• The country is home to many different ethnic groups and regional languages.
• Swahili is the principal language although English is common.

• Kenya has a population of 28.8 million, however the growth rates has been declining since 1979 and now stands at 2.7%.

See and hear it in Swahili.