: small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture,
batteries, textiles, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural
processing; oil refining, cement; tourism
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity:
capacity: 810,000 kW
production: 3.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 117 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: coffee, tea, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit,
vegetables; dairy products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs
Illicit drugs: widespread harvesting of small, wild plots of
marijuana and qat (chat); most locally consumed; transit country for
Southwest Asian heroin moving to West Africa and onward to Europe
and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South
Africa
Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: tea 25%, coffee 18%, petroleum products 11% (1990)
partners: EC 47%, Africa 23%, Asia 11%, US 4%, Middle East 3% (1991)
Imports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: machinery and transportation equipment 29%, petroleum
and petroleum products 15%, iron and steel 7%, raw materials, food
and consumer goods (1989)
partners: EC 46%, Asia 23%, Middle East 20%, US 5% (1991)
External debt: $7 billion (1994 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $589 million (1993)
Currency: 1 Kenyan shilling (KSh) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Kenyan shillings (KSh) per US$1 - 56.715 (January
1996), 51.430 (1995), 56.051 (1994), 58.001 (1993), 32.217 (1992),
27.508 (1991)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
Transportation
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Railways:
total: 2,652 km
narrow gauge: 2,652 km 1.000-m gauge
Highways:
total: 62,573 km
paved: 8,322 km
unpaved: 54,251 km (1991 est.)
Waterways: part of Lake Victoria system is within boundaries of
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@Kingman Reef
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(territory of the US)
Map
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Location: 6 24 N, 162 24 W -- Oceania, reef in the North Pacific
Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to American Samoa
Flag
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Description: the flag of the US is used
Geography
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Location: Oceania, reef in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-half
of the way from Hawaii to American Samoa
Geographic coordinates: 6 24 N, 162 24 W
Map references: Oceania
Area:
total area: 1 sq km
land area: 1 sq km
comparative area: about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastli
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