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Issue Number: 599 – April to June 2012GeographyKenya, with an estimatedpopulation (2011) of morethan forty-one million and aland area of 571,416 sq. km. (220,625 sq.mi.), straddles the Equator on the easterncoast of Africa: the port city of Kisumu,on the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria, isalmost exactly on the Equator, and Nairobi,the capital city, is just south of it. Kenya’sadjacent western neighbours are Ugandaand Tanzania; continuing anticlockwisethe eastern neighbour is Somalia, thenEthiopia and Sudan to the north.Plains stretch from the coast, northwardalong the Somali border and westward(the Nyika Plain) toward the KenyaHighlands. The highland area is dividednorth to south along the Great Rift Valley.by C. P. HallihanNairobi is at the southern end of theAberdare Range, east of the rift; east ofthe Aberdare Range is Mount Kenya, thecountry’s highest mountain. 1 West of thehighlands, grasslands extend to LakeVictoria (the second largest freshwater lakein the world 2 ). The climate is varied: tropicalalong the coast, temperate inland, arid inthe north and northeast,with a great dealof sunshine all theyear round.Kenya has hugeand varied areas ofwildlife habitat; inthe Masai Mara, bluewildebeest and othersimilarly gracefulhornedSmall farm, Highlands, Kenya17Rich variety of wildlife; elephants, wildebeest andzebra roam the great savannah.