Thika
Thika is an industrial town and commerce hub in Kiambu County, Kenya, lying on the A2 road 42 kilometres, northeast of Nairobi, near the confluence of the Thika and Chania Rivers.
- Type: Town with 83,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Kenya
- Also known as: “Dhika”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Thika High School and Thika Power Station.
Thika
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nairobi County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.0366° or 1° 2′ 12″ south
Longitude
37.0775° or 37° 4′ 39″ east
Population
83,000
Elevation
1,506 metres (4,941 feet)
UN/LOCODE
KE THK
Open location code
6GCVX37H+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Thika” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثيكا”
- Asturian: “Thika”
- Bengali: “টিকা”
- Catalan: “Thika”
- Cebuano: “Thika”
- Chinese: “錫卡”
- Chinese: “锡卡”
- Croatian: “Thika”
- Danish: “Thika”
- Dutch: “Thika”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثيكا”
- Esperanto: “Thika”
- Finnish: “Thika”
- French: “Thika”
- Georgian: “თიკა”
- German: “Thika”
- Greek: “Θίκα”
- Gujarati: “થિકા”
- Hindi: “थिका”
- Indonesian: “Thika”
- Irish: “Thika”
- Italian: “Thika”
- Japanese: “シカ”
- Kannada: “ಥಿಕಾ”
- Korean: “티카”
- Latvian: “Sika”
- Latvian: “Tika”
- Lithuanian: “Čika”
- Lithuanian: “Tika”
- Malay: “Thika”
- Marathi: “थायका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thika”
- Norwegian: “Thika”
- Persian: “تیکا”
- Polish: “Thika”
- Portuguese: “Thika”
- Portuguese: “Tica”
- Romanian: “Thika”
- Russian: “Тик”
- Russian: “Тика”
- Sinhala: “තිකා”
- South Azerbaijani: “تیکا، کنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “تیکا”
- Spanish: “Thika”
- Swahili: “Thika”
- Swedish: “Thika”
- Tamil: “திக்கா”
- Telugu: “థికా”
- Thai: “ไทโคท”
- Tumbuka: “Thika, Kenya”
- Turkish: “Thika”
- Ukrainian: “Тіка”
- Urdu: “تھیکا”
- Vietnamese: “Thika”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thika”
- Zulu: “Thika”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: KARI(Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and Tank Farm.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: thika stadium and Thika Stadium football pitch.
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