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Absolute: 1.2833° S, 36.8167° E Relative: Nairobi, Kenya is west of the Indian Ocean, south of Ethiopia, north of Tanzania and east of Uganda and is on the east coast of Africa. || ** Location: ** Absolute: 40.6700° N, 73.9400° W Relative: south of Lake Ontario, west of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, north of Pennsylvania, east of Lake Erie. || || || People: 7% of Kenya's roads are paved. Kenya has good domestic and international air travel. Travel by train or bus is slow. Most bus drives are bad and accidents are common,taxis are also used. Goods: Kenya's exports include coffee, tea and horticultural produce Ideas: 28% of Kenyans have internet 67% of Kenyans have cell phone subscriptions || ** Movement ** People: Most people rely on taxis, buses and subway trains. Few people have cars. Other people walk and bike. Goods: foodstuffs, commodities, minerals, manufactured goods, and cut diamonds, and automobile parts are some of the main exports in Nairobi Kenya. Ideas: 74.8% of all households in the US have internet use 91% of Americans have a cell phone 99% of american families have TV || Physical Characteristics: Kenya is 224,081 square miles. Kenya covers an area slightly smaller than France or the U.S. state of Texas. Two of Africa's great lakes are in Kenya. Lake Turkana also know as Lake Rudolf lies near the Chalbi Desert, and Lake Victoria overlaps the southwestern border.
 * ** Nairobi, Kenya ** || ** New York, New York ** ||
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 * ** Location: **
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 * ** Place **

Human Characteristics The population of Kenya is 43.2 million people. Kenyans speak English and Swahili as main languages. About four fifths of Nairobi's population is Christianity. Other religions include Baha'i, Hinduism, Islam, and traditional African religions. About 99 percent of the population is African and is divided among at least 47 distinct ethnic groups, or tribes. The largest of these groups include the Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, and Meru 6%. Smaller groups include the Embu, Maassi, Mijikenda, Samburu, Somali, Taita, Teso, Turkana, and others. About 1 percent of the population consists of Europeans, Asians, and Arabs. || ** Place ** Physical Characteristics: Glaciers left more than 4,000 rivers, streams. There is good farmland in the state’s 54,475 square miles. The Appalachian Mountains cover about half the state; they include the Catskills and the Adirondacks.

Human Characteristics The population of New York is 8.337 million. The language in New York mostly English but almost all languages are used in New York except for tribe languages. The religion of New York includes 52% Catholic, 29% is Jewish and 18% is other.

Out of New York's population 71.2% of the people in New York are white. 18.2% of the population are Hispanic or Latino. 17.5% of the population are African. Asians makes up 8% of the population. 2.2% of the people are mixed race. || Clothes: Kenyans wear western style clothing with some African variations. Imported secondhand clothing from Europe and North America is very popular and affordable. Light fabrics and short sleeves are common because of the warm area. Sleeveless dresses or blouses are considered rude. Only children and elderly men are aloud to wear shorts. Women usually wear dresses, but many young urban women wear pants. Women often wear a kanga (a rectangular piece of colorful cotton fabric) as a skirt, to cover their clothes, or to shield themselves from rain and wind. Rural and some urban women wear scarves. Housing: In urban areas, people more commonly live as nuclear families. The style and size of homes varies. A big house is a suburban mansion at the other extreme are large slum areas, where thousands of people live in cramped houses without sufficient sewage buildings. Large townhouse developments are growing in popularity. Also common are gated communities with five to twenty houses. In rural areas, extended families live in small compounds, which contain several mud brick huts, either square or round, with thatched roofs. Richer families may build brick or stone houses with tin roofs. Huts usually have four rooms at most and have simple wooden furniture. || ** Human Environment Interaction ** Clothes: In New York jeans with t-shirts, button-down shirts, and sweaters are common among girls and boys. Girls also wear leggings, skirts, and dresses. Shorts, tank tops, and similarly light-weight options are worn in summer or spring. In winter people in New York wear jeans, sweatpants, coats, sweatshirts, long sleeve shirts etc. Housing: Most people that live in new York city live in apartments. Since it is a big city there is not much room for houses and it isn't extremely safe. Apartments are normally atleast 3 floors and are in or just outside the city. ||
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