Kenya covers 580,367 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 0.4% of all land on Earth. It ranks 49th of 237 countries worldwide and 23rd in Africa. At 1° latitude Mercator only inflates Kenya by about 0.01%, so the old and new maps largely agree on it, unlike the far north where Mercator's stretch is dramatic.
For scale, Kenya is roughly the same size as Botswana (582,000 km²).
You could fit 3 of Tunisia inside Kenya.
Kenya: key figures
| True area | 580,367 km² |
| World rank | 49th |
| Share of world land | 0.4% |
| Rank in Africa | 23rd / 58 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.00× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 580,425 km² |
Largest countries in Africa (true area)
| Africa | |
|---|
| Algeria | 2,381,741 km² |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,344,858 km² |
| Sudan | 1,878,000 km² |
| Libya | 1,759,540 km² |
| Chad | 1,284,000 km² |
| Niger | 1,267,000 km² |