What is the currency of Kenya?

The currency of Kenya is the Kenyan shilling.

The Kenyan shilling, abbreviated KSh and identified internationally by the code KES, is issued by the Central Bank of Kenya. It is divided into 100 cents, although low-value coins are used less often in everyday transactions than larger denominations. Prices may appear in Kenya’s traditional x/y format, where the first number represents shillings and the second represents cents.

Kenya introduced its own shilling in 1966, when it replaced the East African shilling at par. That earlier currency had circulated across several East African territories, so the Kenyan shilling belongs to a wider regional monetary history.

The word “shilling” is shared by several currencies, which makes this answer easy to mix up. Uganda uses the Ugandan shilling and Tanzania uses the Tanzanian shilling, but each is a separate currency with its own central bank and exchange rate. Ethiopia, by contrast, uses the birr. Kenyan banknotes and coins commonly highlight national leaders, wildlife, and other symbols of Kenyan identity.