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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gabby Canonizado, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 83,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Kenya
- Also known as: “Dhika”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thika High School.
Thika High School
School
Thika High School is a boys-only boarding high school located in Thika District in Central Province, Kenya. Thika High School was founded in 1951, while Kenya was still a British Colony, by the Alliance of Protestant Churches and the Church of Scotland Mission.
Thika
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nairobi County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.0366° or 1° 2′ 12″ southLongitude
37.0775° or 37° 4′ 39″ eastPopulation
83,000Elevation
1,506 metres (4,941 feet)United Nations Location Code
KE THKOpen location code
6GCVX37H+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 1141424596OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Thika” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثيكا”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include thika stadium and Thika Stadium football pitch.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thika”. Photo: Gabby Canonizado, CC BY 2.0.