Map of Kenya

Kenya is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 1.0° N, 38.0° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Kenya is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Kenya shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Kenya covers about 580,367 km² (224,081 sq mi). That makes it the 47th-largest country in the world by area and the 23rd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 31 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 53,330,978, the 26th-largest in the world and the 7th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 3.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Kenya has an average population density of about 92 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 7th by population and 23rd by area.

The seat of government is Nairobi, and the official currency is the Kenyan shilling (KES, Sh), and the main official languages are English and Swahili. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Kenya carries the ISO country codes KE and KEN, dials on the international calling code +254 and uses the .ke internet domain.

Kenya shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ethiopia (capital Addis Ababa, about 111,652,998 people), Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), Uganda (capital Kampala, about 45,905,417 people), Somalia (capital Mogadishu, about 19,655,000 people) and South Sudan (capital Juba, about 15,786,898 people).

By area, Kenya is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 1.0° N, 38.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Kenya within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Nairobi. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Kenya lies about 111 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Kenya keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Kenyan shilling (KES, Sh).

The official languages are English and Swahili, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +254 and websites commonly use the .ke internet domain.

In short, Kenya is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Nairobi. Kenya has a population of about 53,330,978 and covers around 580,367 km² (224,081 sq mi), ranking it 26th in the world by population and 47th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Kenya.

The flag of Kenya is composed of three equal horizontal bands of black, red with white top and bottom edges, and green. An emblem comprising a red, black and white Maasai shield covering two crossed white spears is superimposed at the center of the field.

The flag of Kenya is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.