Limuru
Limuru is a town in central Kenya. It serves as both a parliamentary constituency and an administrative division. As of 2004, the town's population was approximately 4,800, which significantly increased to 159,314 by the 2019 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kabuku.
Kabuku
Suburb
Kabuku is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province, in the subcounty of Limuru. As of 2019, it had a population of 4,206, divided among 1,312 households. Kabuku is situated 5 km southeast of Limuru.
Limuru
- Type: Town with 159,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kiambu County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.1159° or 1° 6′ 57″ southLongitude
36.6393° or 36° 38′ 22″ eastPopulation
159,000Elevation
2,251 metres (7,385 feet)United Nations Location Code
KE LIMOpen location code
6GCRVJMQ+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1523675169OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Zulu—“Limuru” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Limuru”
- Cebuano: “Limuru”
- Chinese: “利穆魯”
- Dutch: “Limuru”
- Estonian: “Limuru”
- Finnish: “Limuru”
- French: “Limuru”
- Georgian: “ლიმურუ”
- German: “Limuru”
- Irish: “Limuru”
- Japanese: “リムル”
- Polish: “Limuru”
- Spanish: “Limuru”
- Swahili: “Limuru, Kenya”
- Swahili: “Limuru”
- Swedish: “Limuru”
- Urdu: “لیمورو”
- Zulu: “Limuru”
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