Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $839
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $6.7 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $74 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $83 million

_#_Currency: Kenyan shilling (plural--shillings);
1 Kenyan shilling (KSh) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Kenyan shillings (KSh) per US$1--24.427 (January
1991), 22.915 (1990), 20.572 (1989), 17.747 (1988), 16.454 (1987), 16.226
(1986), 16.432 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 2,040 km 1.000-meter gauge

_#_Highways: 64,590 km total; 7,000 km paved, 4,150 km gravel,
remainder improved earth

_#_Inland waterways: part of Lake Victoria system is within boundaries
of Kenya; principal inland port is at Kisumu

_#_Pipelines: refined products, 483 km

_#_Ports: Mombasa, Lamu

_#_Civil air: 14 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 249 total, 213 usable; 22 with permanent-surface runways;
2 with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 47 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: in top group of African systems; consists of
radio relay links, open-wire lines, and radiocommunication stations;
260,000 telephones; stations--11 AM, 4 FM, 4 TV; satellite earth
stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Indian Ocean INTLESAT

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, Air Force, paramilitary General
Service Unit of the Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 5,444,247; 3,362,290 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $100 million, 1.0% of GDP (1989 est.)
_%_
_@_Kingman Reef
(territory of the US)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 1 km2; land area: 1 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 3 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical, but moderated by prevailing winds

_#_Terrain: low and nearly level with a maximum elevation of about
1 meter

_#_Natural resources: none

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: barren coral atoll with deep interior lagoon; wet or
awash most of the time

_#_Note: located 1,600 km south-south