East Africa
Kenya
Nairobi County

Kibera

Kibera is a division and neighbourhood of , , 6.6 kilometres from the city centre. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and also the largest urban slum in all of Africa.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Largest neighborhood in Nairobi
  • Also known as: “Kibera Estate”, “Kibera Special Settlement Area”, and “KiberaEstate”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nairobi Wilson Airport and Kenyatta National Hospital.

Aerodrome
Photo: Kreuzschnabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wilson Airport is an in , . It has flights to many regional airports in Kenya while Nairobi's main airport, , serves domestic and many international destinations. is situated 3 km southeast of Kibera.

Hospital
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The is the oldest hospital in , which was established In 1901 as the Native Civil Hospital but later changed in 1963 to .

Hospital
The Nairobi Women's Hospital is a for-profit hospital in , . It has 726 beds. The hospital was founded in 2001 by Dr. Sam Thenya and was the first of its kind in the and Central Africa region.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodley and Kilimani.

Suburb
is a residential neighbourhood in the city of . It is approximately 4.4 kilometres west of the central business district. It generally a low-density suburb that lies north of Africa's largest slum, Kibera.

Suburb
is a mixed-use commercial and residential neighbourhood in the city of . is situated 2½ km north of Kibera.

Suburb
Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, CC BY 2.0.
is a central business district of the city of , the capital and largest city of . The district has seen an increase in major construction in recent years, with several multinational corporations setting up offices. is situated 3½ km northeast of Kibera.

Kibera

Latitude
-1.31133° or 1° 18′ 41″ south
Longitude
36.789° or 36° 47′ 20″ east
Elevation
1,794 metres (5,886 feet)
Open location code
6GCRMQQQ+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11007276790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
192495
Wiki­data ID
Q579521
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kibera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيبيرا”
  • Armenian: “Կիբերա”
  • Bulgarian: “Кибера”
  • Catalan: “Kibera”
  • Cebuano: “Kibera”
  • Chechen: “Кибера”
  • Chinese: “基贝拉”
  • Chinese: “基贝拉贫民窟”
  • Czech: “Kibera”
  • Danish: “Kibera”
  • Dutch: “Kibera”
  • Finnish: “Kibera”
  • French: “Kibera”
  • Galician: “Kibera”
  • Georgian: “კიბერა”
  • German: “Kibera”
  • Indonesian: “Kibera”
  • Italian: “Kibera”
  • Japanese: “キベラ”
  • Korean: “키베라”
  • Lithuanian: “Kibera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kibera”
  • Norwegian: “Kibera”
  • Polish: “Kibera”
  • Portuguese: “Kibera”
  • Portuguese: “Quibera”
  • Russian: “Кибера”
  • Serbian: “Кибера”
  • Slovenian: “Kibera”
  • Spanish: “Kibera”
  • Sundanese: “Kibera”
  • Swahili: “Kibera”
  • Swedish: “Kibera”
  • Ukrainian: “Кібера”
  • Vietnamese: “Kibera”

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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 “Kibera”. Photo: Kreuzschnabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.