Kiambu County
Kiambu District was an administrative district in the Central Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Kiambu. The district was adjacent to the northern border of Nairobi and had a population of 744,010.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Limuru and Githunguri.
Limuru
Town
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. Limuru is situated 7 km southwest of Kiambu County.
Githunguri
Town
Photo: Njoroge Wa Chege, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Githunguri is an agricultural town in Kiambu County in central Kenya's former Central Province. It is one of the administrative centres of Kiambu County and home to one of East Africa's largest dairy processing plant Fresha, which is owned by a farmers co-operative, Githunguri Dairy farmers cooperative Society. Githunguri is situated 10 km northeast of Kiambu County.
Kambaa
Town
The Central Province was a region in central Kenya until 2013, when Kenya's provinces were replaced by a system of counties. It covered an area of 11,449 km2 and was located to the north of Nairobi and west of Mount Kenya.
Kiambu County
- Description: former district of Kenya
- Also known as: “Kiambu District”
- Location: Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.09° or 1° 5′ 24″ southLongitude
36.699° or 36° 41′ 56″ eastPopulation
2,420,000Elevation
2,229 metres (7,313 feet)Open location code
6GCRWM5X+XJGeoNames ID
192709Wikidata ID
Q122898219
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Kiambu County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kiambu”
- Chinese: “基安布郡”
- Dutch: “Kiambu”
- Esperanto: “Kiambuo (distrikto)”
- Esperanto: “Kiambuo”
- Finnish: “Kiambun piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Kiambu”
- German: “Kiambu County”
- Indonesian: “County Kiambu”
- Irish: “Contae Kiambu”
- Italian: “contea di Kiambu”
- Japanese: “キアンブ”
- Korean: “키암부현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiambu Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiambu fylke”
- Persian: “شهرستان کیامبو”
- Polish: “Kiambu”
- Russian: “Киямбу”
- Spanish: “Condado de Kiambu”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Kiambu”
- Swedish: “Kiambu”
- Urdu: “کیامبو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Kiambu”
- Welsh: “Sir Kiambu”
- Zulu: “Kiambu County”
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