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kenya

UK/ˈkɛn.jə/US/ˈkɛn.jə/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,464 of 15,258leans written

Kenya is the East African country of safaris and great runners. Travel to Kenya, born in Kenya, the coast of Kenya.

The capital is Nairobi and the country sits on the equator with the Indian Ocean to its east. Kenya has produced more world-class distance runners than any nation of its size, most of them from the highlands around Eldoret, and it became independent from Britain in 1963.

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Definitions of kenya

  1. 1nounkenyaAn East African country.B1+

    “Runners from Kenya have won many of the world's great marathons.”

kenya is a country.

Where it comes from

Kenya comes from the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including

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