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Kenya (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 01 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 1.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 038 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 38.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Especially noted for populations of animals and early hominid sites; Masai invaded in 18th century; area was traversed by caravans of Arabs and Swahili-speakers searching for ivory; visited by British in 19th century; was under British control until independence; official languages are English and Swahili, though numerous other tribal languages are also spoken. |
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| Kenya (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Kenya (Rundi)
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| Kenya (Tagalog)
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| Kenya (Malagasy)
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| Kenya (Vietnamese)
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| Kenya (Indonesian)
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| Kenya (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Kenya (Azerbaijani)
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| Kenya (Lingala)
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| Kenya (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Kenya (Danish)
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| Kenya (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Kenya (Swedish)
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| Kenya (Romanian)
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| Kenya (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Kenya (Catalan)
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| Kenya (Basque)
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| Kenya (Welsh)
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| Kenya (Kiswahili-P,U,N)
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| Kenya (Kurdish)
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| Kenya (Hausa)
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| Kenya (Breton)
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| Kenya (Cornish)
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| Kenya (French-P,U,N)
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| Kenya (Italian)
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| Kenya (Estonian)
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| Kenya (Greenlandic)
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| Kenya (Turkish)
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| Kenya (Occitan)
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| Kenya (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Kenya (Kikuyu)
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| Kenya (Luba-Katanga)
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| Kenya (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Kenya (Norwegian)
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| Kenya (Pampanga)
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| Kenya (Shona)
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| Kenya (Swahili (generic))
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| Kenya (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Jamhuri ya Kenya (C,V,O,Kiswahili,U,N)
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| Republic of Kenya (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| République du Kenya (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Kenya (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Kenia (C,O,Latin)
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| Kenia (Finnish)
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| Kenia (Polish)
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| Kenia (Spanish)
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| Kenia (Basque)
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| Kenia (Aragonese)
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| Kenia (German)
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| Kenia (Low German)
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| Kenia (Albanian)
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| Kenia (Dutch)
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| Kenia (Afrikaans)
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| Kenia (Romansh)
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| Kenia (Northern Sami)
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| Kenia (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Kenia (Arpitan)
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| Kenia (Ido)
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| Kenia (Limburgan)
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| Quênia (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Кения (C,O,Tajik)
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| Кения (Bulgarian)
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| Кения (Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Кения (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 肯尼亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 肯尼亚共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ه اًَِ (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً ه اًَِ (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| KEN (C,O,ISO3L)
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| KE (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO404 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Kenyan (C,O)
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| קניה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| A Cheinia (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| An Chéinia (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Cenia (C,U,Welsh)
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| Chenia (C,U,Piemontese)
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| i-Kenya (C,U,Zulu)
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| Keenia (C,U,Estonian)
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| Keeniyaa (C,U,Oromo)
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| Keňa (C,U,Slovak)
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| Keňa (Czech)
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| Keña (C,U,Asturian)
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| Keñaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Kê-ni-a (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Kenía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Kènia (C,U,Catalan)
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| Kê-ni-a (Kenya) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Kenija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Kenija (Bosnian)
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| Kenija (Latvian)
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| Kenija (Slovene)
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| Kenija (Lithuanian)
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| Kenija (Upper Sorbian)
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| Keniya (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Keniya (Bambara)
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| Kenja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Kenja (Faroese)
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| Kenjo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Kenýa (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Kenyäa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Kenyän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Kenya nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Khenya (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Kiiniya (C,U,Somali)
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| Kiinya (C,U,Somali)
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| Kɛnya (C,U,Akan)
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| Orílẹ́ède Kenya (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Quénia (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Quenia (C,U,Galician)
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| Quenia - Kenya (C,U,Galician)
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| Кенія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Кенія (Belarusian)
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| Кенија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Кенија (Macedonian)
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| კენია (C,U,Georgian)
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| كېنىيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| কেনিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ཁེ་ནི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| കെനിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| केन्या (C,U,Marathi)
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| केन्या (Sanskrit)
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| केन्या (Hindi)
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| केन्या (Nepali)
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| កេនយ៉ា (C,U,Khmer)
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| ཀེ་ནི་ཡ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| ประเทศเคนยา (C,U,Thai)
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| ኬንያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ኬንያ (Amharic)
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| கென்யா (C,U,Tamil)
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| เคนยา (C,U,Thai)
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| كينيا (C,U,Arabic)
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| Քենիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| কেনিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| Κένυα (C,U,Greek)
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| ケニア (C,U,Japanese)
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| کنیا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ಕೀನ್ಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ເຄນຢ່າ (C,U,Lao)
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| 케냐 (C,U,Korean)
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| કેન્યા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ཁེན་ཉི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| కెన్యా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ケニア共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ကင်ညာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| කෙන්යාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| केनिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| کینیا (C,U,Urdu)
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| କେନିୟା (C,U,Odia)
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| British East Africa Protectorate (H,V)
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............ | 1895-1920 |
| East Africa Protectorate (H,V)
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............ | 1895-1920 |
| Kenya Colony (H,V)
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| Kenya Protectorate (H,V)
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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fully independent 1963 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1964 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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British, early 19th cen.-1963 |
| colony (H) |
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British, 1920-1963 |
| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1895-1920 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Nairobi .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Kenya, Nairobi City) [7001116] |
| historical connection .... |
British East Africa .......... (former territory/colony/dependent state) |
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(World, Africa) [8711612] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1963 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1963 |
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