Kenya

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LanguageSwahili, English
Driving sideDrives on the left
Domain.ke
Easily confused with:Nigeria, Senegal, Rwanda, CuracaoQuizzes for this area:Kenya State Quiz, Kenya City Quiz

Whole area5

Clues that work anywhere in this area

Language & Script★★★

Both English and Swahili are used.

Google Car★★★

The Google Car is distinctive and comes in a few variants. Sometimes the roof rack is visible, sometimes there's a black snorkel-like part (a vehicle snorkel), and sometimes the side mirrors show. Some cars are black.

Watch outOccasionally the Google Car isn't visible at all.1234
Examples123456789
Commercial Facilities★★★

Notable local companies include STEERS (fast food), Safaricom (telecom), and Java (a coffee brand, apparently). Safaricom in particular is fairly visible around town.

Examples123SourcesJETRO - Kenyan Companies
SafariCom

Narrowing down the region7

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Vegetation

Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral

Where Vegetation clues apply3

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  1. palm trees
  2. flat-topped
  3. drylands
Plants & farming★★★

Along the eastern coast, thin palm-like trees grow.

Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral
Plants & farming★★★

Trees with flat tops seem common in the northwest.

Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral
Plants & farming★★★

Reddish-brown, dry ground with sparse, thorny, low shrubs and almost no farmland means the dry north-to-east region. It looks clearly different from the highlands around and west of Nairobi, with their green fields and tea plantations.

Examples12SourcesAgriculture in Kenya - Wikipedia (share of land suitable for farming)
Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral

Agriculture

Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralWest of the Rift Valley (main producer)East of the Rift Valley (foothills)
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralLake Naivasha (biggest concentration)Other growing areas
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralLarge estates
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentral

Where Agriculture clues apply4

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  1. tea plantation
  2. greenhouse
  3. sisal
  4. pineapple
Plants & farming★★★★

Yellow-green shrubs, trimmed flat at about waist height, blanketing a hillside like a carpet mean a tea plantation (Kericho and others).

NoteTea basically grows only in cool, rainy highlands, so it won't be seen along the coast or in the dry north.
Examples12SourcesTea Growing Counties in Kenya - Tea Board of Kenya
Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralWest of the Rift Valley (main producer)East of the Rift Valley (foothills)KerichoNandi HillsKisiiNyeriLimuru
  • West of the Rift Valley (main producer)
  • East of the Rift Valley (foothills)
A trimmed tea plantation with windbreak trees (Kericho County)
A trimmed tea plantation with windbreak trees (Kericho County)
Ahero dala / CC BY-SA 4.0
Plants & farming★★★★

Huge greenhouses covered in white plastic are cut-flower farms. The biggest concentration is on the south and east shores of Lake Naivasha. There's little Street View there to begin with, so you won't see them often (satellite imagery shows quite a lot).

Examples12SourcesThe Flower Industry in Kenya - Embassy of Kenya in Japan
Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralLake Naivasha (biggest concentration)Other growing areasLake NaivashaNakuruThika
  • Lake Naivasha (biggest concentration)
  • Other growing areas
Greenhouses lining the floor of a basin (photo from Cundinamarca, Colombia)
Greenhouses lining the floor of a basin (photo from Cundinamarca, Colombia)
Petruss / CC BY-SA 3.0
Plants & farming★★★★

Grayish-green, sword-shaped leaves 1.5-2m tall, radiating out from a central rosette, planted in straight rows going on and on across dry, flat land, mean a sisal plantation. No need to memorise this.

Examples1SourcesSisal - Wikipedia (leaf shape and production rankings)Taita-Taveta County - Wikipedia (three sisal estates)Our Sisal Estates - REA Vipingo (Dwa Estate and Vipingo Estate)
Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralLarge estates
  • Large estates
Plants & farming★★★

Knee-to-waist-high plants with long, pointed leaves radiating outward, packed in row after row of red soil, mean a pineapple field. There are large plantations around Thika, northeast of Nairobi.

Examples12SourcesDel Monte Kenya - Wikipedia (the Thika pineapple plantation)Del Monte, two counties wrestle for 60,000 acre pineapple farm - The Standard (Kiambu and Murang'a counties)
Where
Rift ValleyEasternNorth-EasternCoastNyanzaWesternNairobiCentralThika
A pineapple field stretching to the horizon (photo from Bukidnon, Philippines)
A pineapple field stretching to the horizon (photo from Bukidnon, Philippines)
Obsidian Soul / CC0

Regions

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Rift Valley Eastern North-Eastern Coast Nyanza Western Nairobi Central

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