Kenya map quiz
Explore cities, mountains and waters of Kenya!
Quizzes in this pack
Kenya: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital, the only city in the world with a national park within its boundaries
- Answer: Nairobi
- Second-largest city, major Indian Ocean port, over 1,000 years of Swahili trading history
- Answer: Mombasa
- Third-largest city on the shore of Lake Victoria in western Kenya
- Answer: Kisumu
- City in the Great Rift Valley, near a famous flamingo lake in a national park of the same name
- Answer: Nakuru
- Highland city at 2,100 m, the running capital of the world, home to many champion marathoners
- Answer: Eldoret
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Mount Kenya
Central Kenya, on the equator
Mount Kenya, about 5,199 metres, is the second-highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro, an old volcano worn down to jagged peaks, with small glaciers right on the equator. The country is named after it, and the Kikuyu people see it as the home of their god Ngai.
- Height
- About 5,199 m
Masai Mara
Narok County
The Maasai Mara is a reserve of open grassland in south-west Kenya, named after the Maasai people and the Mara River. Every year, from about July to October, more than a million wildebeest come north from the Serengeti and cross the Mara River past waiting crocodiles.
- Area
- About 1,500 km²
- Did you know?
- Mara means “spotted” in the Maa language, after the trees and bushes that dot the plain
Lake Nakuru
Great Rift Valley
Lake Nakuru is a salty lake in the Great Rift Valley, famous for the huge flocks of flamingos that can turn its shores pink. The park around it is also a sanctuary for black and white rhinos.
- Did you know?
- Flamingos get their pink colour from the algae and tiny shrimps they eat
Amboseli
Kajiado County
Amboseli National Park, at the foot of Kilimanjaro on the Tanzanian border, is known for its large herds of elephants, often seen with the snowy mountain behind them. Swamps fed by meltwater from Kilimanjaro keep it green in the dry season.
- Did you know?
- Its elephants have been studied every year since 1972, one of the longest studies of wild animals
Lake Turkana
Northern Kenya
Lake Turkana in the desert of northern Kenya is the largest permanent desert lake in the world, called the Jade Sea for its blue-green water. Fossils of some of the earliest humans have been found on its shores, and Nile crocodiles breed on its islands.
- Length
- About 290 km
Tsavo National Park
South-east Kenya
Tsavo is Kenya's largest national park, split into Tsavo East and Tsavo West. Its elephants are often red from dusting themselves with the red soil, and in 1898 two lions attacked workers building the railway here, the famous man-eaters of Tsavo.
- Area
- About 22,000 km²
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
