In the last issue, we introduced the "Sailing Capital" Auckland: New Zealand's largest city and the country's economic center with a pleasant climate, today we turn our attention from the island nation of the southwest Pacific in the southern hemisphere to the northwest, through Australia into the Indian Ocean, and across the entire Indian Ocean, to the East African region of Africa, the second largest continent in the world, to introduce the fiftieth article in the series of articles: "Little Paris of East Africa" Nairobi: the capital of the East African country of Kenya, an international metropolis.
Nairobi, "Little Paris of East Africa"
Kenya is an abbreviation for the Republic of Kenya, located in the East African Plateau region of east Africa, the equator runs through central Kenya, Kenya is a coastal country bordering the Indian Ocean to the east, bordering Somalia to the east, Ethiopia and South Sudan to the north, Uganda to the west, and Tanzania to the south. Kenya is one of the birthplaces of human beings, where human skulls from 2.5 million years ago have been unearthed, and humans have a long history of living in Kenya. Kenya's land area is about 580,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the sum of the area of Sichuan Province and Zhejiang Province, Kenya's population is about 51.39 million people, is the seventh most populous country in Africa, Kenya is a developing country, the capital is Nairobi.
Location map of Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi is located in the southwestern region of Kenya, from the longitude position, Nairobi is located at about 36° east longitude, from the time zone point of view belongs to the east of the second district, but Kenya's district uses the area of the eastern third district, mainly to make full use of the sun. From the perspective of latitude, Nairobi is located about 1 ° south latitude, belongs to the low-latitude tropical region of the southern hemisphere, very close to the equator, so the length of day and night in Nairobi throughout the year changes very little, basically every day day and night are close to 12 hours, is a city that is almost equal to the day and night of the whole year. Nairobi is located in the low-latitude tropics, but the temperature in Nairobi is very pleasant, with an average annual temperature of only about 17.7 °C, mainly due to topographic factors.
Nairobi has a pleasant climate
Kenya is located in East Africa, except for the coastal area is a plain terrain, most of the country is a plateau terrain with an average altitude of more than 1500 kilometers, which is part of the East African Plateau, and the Great Rift Valley passes through the central part of Kenya from north to south. Nairobi, the capital of southwestErn Kenya, is about 1660 meters above sea level, which belongs to the plateau terrain, and we know that the temperature will drop by about 6 °C for every 1000 meters of elevation increase, so in the tropics people usually prefer to live in higher altitudes and cooler plateaus, such as Brazil's construction of the capital Brasilia on the Brazilian plateau. Due to the existence of the East African plateau, although Nairobi is close to the equator and is affected by the equatorial low pressure zone all year round, it has not formed a tropical rainforest climate due to the low temperature.
Wildlife in Nairobi National Park
Due to the low temperature, the upward movement of the air is weakened, so that the annual precipitation in Nairobi is only about 900 mm, resulting in a savannah climate. The climate precipitation is small, making Nairobi very sunny, the average daily sunshine hours throughout the year is about 7 hours, which is very conducive to the growth of light-loving vegetation, so Nairobi is also known as "green city under the sun", in the sunshine the city is lined with trees, flowers, very beautiful. Nairobi is not a historic city, Kenya was once a British colony, nairobi was a railway station in the British colony in 1890, nairobi became the terminus of British munitions transportation in 1899, and by 1905, Nairobi became the capital of the British East African Protectorate.
Night view of Nairobi
Since then, Nairobi has become an important town for British colonists, began large-scale construction, and by the time Of Kenya's independence in 1963, Nairobi naturally became the capital of Kenya. Nairobi is a rail transit centre, an important railway hub in East Africa, and an important trade center, as well as more developed industrial and tourism industries. With an area of about 650 square kilometers and a population of over 3.5 million, Nairobi is the largest city in the entire East African region. Nairobi is also a cosmopolitan metropolis, because of the city's prosperity, attracting a large number of people to immigrate to Nairobi, including many foreigners, so Nairobi has the reputation of "Little Paris of East Africa". In addition, agencies such as the United Nations Environment Programme and the Human Settlements Programme are also in Nairobi, the only United Nations agency at the level of an office in a third world country.
United Nations Environment Programme