Kenya vs United States

United States is 17 times larger than Kenya — 9,833,517 against 580,367 km². United States is 5.9 times more populous than Kenya — 341,784,857 against 57,532,493 people.

Side by side

Population density

Kenya is 2.9 times more densely populated than United States — 99 against 35 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Kenya on the left, United States on the right.
• Different currencies: the Kenyan shilling and the United States dollar.
• United States spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — Africa and North America.

Kenya

The Great Rift Valley runs the length of the country, and the equator crosses it just north of Nairobi. Mount Kenya reaches 5,199 m and carries glaciers within 20 km of the equator. Lake Turkana in the north is the largest permanent desert lake in the world.

United States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.