The Geography of Barack Obama

It is often said that people are greatly influenced by places in their lives. Barack Obama, the new US President, has no doubt been affected by a number of places relating to his birth, education and employment.

The following selected places are significant to Obama. Click to see their location and related geographical information using our new Collins World Find That Place application.

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. His father, Barack Obama Senior, came from Nyang’oma Kogelo* (also known as Kogelo) in Nyanza province, Kenya. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Fort Leavenworth (a US Army facility) just north of Leavenworth, in Kansas. Obama then moved with his mother to Jakarta, Indonesia until he was ten years old.

He graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Illinois, for twelve years, teaching Constitutional Law.

He became Senator of Illinois in 2005 and in January 2009 he was sworn in as the 44th president of United States at a ceremony in the national capital Washington (District of Columbia).

*This small Kenyan village will now be added into our map data due to the huge media interest, it will be considered for inclusion in future atlases and digital datasets.

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