Nairobi County
Nairobi City County is one of the 47 Counties of Kenya and serves as the capital of Kenya. It is the most populous county as of the 2019 census with a population of 4,397,073, yet among the smallest in area at 696.1 km².
- Type: county of Kenya with 4,400,000 residents
- Description: county in Kenya
- Also known as: “Nairobi Area”, “Nairobi City County”, and “Okrožje Nairobi”
Places of Interest
Highlights: National Museums of Kenya and Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nairobi and Korogocho.
Korogocho
Neighborhood
Imara Daima
Suburb
Imara Daima is a middle class neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. Imara Daima is situated 7 km southeast of Nairobi County.
Nairobi County
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.2833° or 1° 17′ south
Longitude
36.8333° or 36° 50′ east
Population
4,400,000
Elevation
1,649 metres (5,410 feet)
Open location code
6GCRPR8M+M8
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Nairobi County” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ናይሮቢ ስብስብ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة نايروبي”
- Armenian: “Նայրոբի”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Nairobi”
- Azerbaijani: “Nairobi Rayon”
- Belarusian: “Найробі”
- Bengali: “নাইরোবি”
- Catalan: “Nairobi”
- Cebuano: “Nairobi”
- Chinese: “內羅畢郡”
- Chinese: “内罗毕郡”
- Danish: “Nairobi County”
- Dutch: “Nairobi County”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Najrobio”
- Estonian: “Nairobi maakond”
- Finnish: “Nairobin piirikunta”
- French: “Comté de Nairobi”
- French: “Nairobi”
- German: “Nairobi City County”
- German: “Nairobi County”
- Greek: “Ναϊρόμπι”
- Gujarati: “નૈરોબી કાઉન્ટી”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Nairobi”
- Hindi: “नैरोबी काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “County Nairobi”
- Indonesian: “Nairobi County”
- Italian: “Contea di Nairobi”
- Japanese: “ナイロビ (カウンティ)”
- Japanese: “ナイロビ”
- Javanese: “Kabupaten Nairobi”
- Kannada: “ನೈರೋಬಿ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Найроби округі”
- Kirghiz: “Найроби округу”
- Korean: “나이로비현”
- Latvian: “Nairobi province”
- Lithuanian: “Nairobio sritis”
- Luxembourgish: “Nairobi County”
- Malay: “Nairobi County”
- Marathi: “नैरोबी काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nairobi Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nairobi fylke”
- Norwegian: “Nairobi fylke”
- Oromo: “Gidda Nairobi”
- Panjabi: “ਨੈਰੋਬੀ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “شهرستان نایروبی”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Nairobi”
- Polish: “Nairobi”
- Portuguese: “Nairobi”
- Pushto: “د نیروبي کاونټی”
- Russian: “Найроби”
- Sinhala: “නයිරෝබි ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Nairobi County”
- Somali: “Gobolka Nairobi”
- Spanish: “Condado de Nairobi”
- Spanish: “Nairobi”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Nairobi”
- Swedish: “Nairobi County”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Найроби”
- Tamil: “நைரோபி கவுண்டி”
- Tatar: “Найроби округы”
- Telugu: “నైరోబి కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “ไนโรบี”
- Turkish: “Nairobi County”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Найробі”
- Urdu: “نیروبی کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Nairobi tumani”
- Venetian: “contea de Nairobi”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Nairobi”
- Vietnamese: “Nairobi”
- Welsh: “Sir Nairobi”
- Zulu: “Nairobi County”
- “Nairobi City County”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kariokor and Muthurwa.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Nairobi railway station and Stanley Hotel.
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