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The General Knowledge book series, are designed for specific country, are one of the most admired book for the Knowledge improvement and learning purpose.This book contains an information about Background,Geography,Natural resources,Land use,Environment. Population,Sex ratio,flag of the county,Area,Border countries,Maritime claims,Elevation extremes,Land use,Natural hazards,Volcanism,Age structure,Median age,Net migration rate,Country comparison to the world,Religions,Languages,Literacy,School life expectancy ,Government,Time difference,Administrative divisions,Executive branch,Cabinet and almost everthing related with general knowledge.

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Publié par	Zhimgoora Books
Date de parution	01 janvier 0001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781300297598
Langue	English
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Kenya (Africa)

Introduction ::Kenya

Background:

Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA

led Kenya from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978,

when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a

constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party

state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African

National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya.

MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political

liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition

failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997,

which were marred by violence and fraud, but were viewed as

having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President

MOI stepped down in December 2002 following fair and peaceful

elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the

multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow

Coalition (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and

assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an

anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC coalition splintered in

2005 over the constitutional review process. Government defectors

joined with KANU to form a new opposition coalition, the Orange

Democratic Movement, which defeated the government's draft

constitution in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's

reelection in December 2007 brought charges of vote rigging from

ODM candidate Raila ODINGA and unleashed two months of

violence in which as many as 1,500 people died. UN-sponsored

talks in late February produced a powersharing accord bringing

ODINGA into the government in the restored position of prime minister.

Geography ::Kenya

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between

Somalia and Tanzania

Geographic coordinates: 1 00 N, 38 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:

Total: 580,367 sq km

Country comparison to the world: 48

Land: 569,140 sq km

Water: 11,227 sq km

Area - comparative: Slightly more than twice the size of Nevada

Land boundaries:

Total: 3,477 km

Border countries: Ethiopia 861 km, Somalia 682 km, Sudan 232

km, Tanzania 769 km, Uganda 933 km

Coastline: 536 km

Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 12 nm

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Climate: Varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior

Terrain: Low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift

Valley; fertile plateau in west

Elevation extremes:

Lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m

Highest point: Mount Kenya 5,199 m

Natural resources: Limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar,

zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower

Land use:

Arable land: 8.01%

Permanent crops: 0.97%

Other: 91.02% (2005)

Irrigated land: 1,030 sq km (2003)

Total renewable water resources: 30.2 cu km (1990)

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):

Total: 1.58 cu km/yr (30%/6%/64%)

Per capita: 46 cu m/yr (2000)

Natural hazards: Recurring drought; flooding during rainy seasons

Volcanism: Kenya experiences limited volcanic activity; the Barrier

(elev. 1,032 m, 3,385 ft) last erupted in 1921; South Island is the

only other historically active volcano

Environment - current issues: Water pollution from urban and

industrial wastes; degradation of water quality from increased use

of pesticides and fertilizers; water hyacinth infestation in Lake

Victoria; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; poaching

Environment - international agreements:

Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto

Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes,

Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone

Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling

Signed, but not ratified: None of the selected agreements

Geography - note: The Kenyan Highlands comprise one of the most

successful agricultural production regions in Africa; glaciers are

found on Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak; unique

physiographic supports abundant and varied wildlife of scientific

and economic value

People ::Kenya

Population: 40,046,566

Country comparison to the world: 33

Note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the

effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life

expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower

population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of

population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 42.3% (male 8,300,393/female 8,181,898)

15-64 years: 55.1% (male 10,784,119/female 10,702,999)

65 years and over: 2.6% (male 470,218/female 563,145) (2010 est.)

Median age:

Total: 18.8 years

Male: 18.7 years

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