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Potpourri

There are more than 65 national parks and wildlife preserves in Kenya.

Twenty hectares of Kenyan rainforest contain more bird species than the whole of Europe.

Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest Africa, after Kilimanjaro. It is an inactive volcano. Mount Kenya is the source of the name of the Republic of Kenya. Kenya means “white mountain,” as it is also the only place in Kenya with sustained ice and snow year-round.

At 224,081 square miles, Kenya is the 47th largest country in the world.

The “Big Five” animals of Africa can all be found in Kenya: the lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant.

The annual animal migration – especially migration of the wildebeest – occurs between June and September with millions of animals taking part. It has been a popular event for filmmakers to capture.

The most popular sports in Kenya are soccer, cricket, track and field, boxing, volleyball, rugby, tennis and field hockey.

The main cash crops grown in Kitale are sunflower, tea, coffee, Pyrethrum, seed beans and seed maize.

The country of Kenya is comparable in size to the state of Texas.

There are 70 tribes in Kenya with the Kikuyu tribe being the biggest at 20 percent of the population.