Kenya
Southern Rift Valley
Meru County

Meru

Meru is in the region of . It is located on the north-eastern slopes of massif. The town consists of two main parts: central Meru, and junction town, which grew in the north, around the junction of B6 and the road to Maua.
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  • Type: City with 1,830,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kenya
  • Also known as: “Meru, Kenya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Meru Museum.

Museum
The is a located in Meru, . Its exhibits focus on the cultural history and practices of the Meru people.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaaga.

Village
The Eastern Province of was one of 8 Provinces of Kenya. Its northern boundary ran along with that of ; the North Eastern Province and Coast Province lay to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces, including Central Province, ran along its western border.

Meru

Latitude
0.05° or 0° 2′ 60″ north
Longitude
37.65° or 37° 39′ east
Population
1,830,000
Elevation
1,579 metres (5,180 feet)
Open location code
6GGV2MX2+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44929227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
186827
Wiki­data ID
Q934149
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Meru” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرو”
  • Arabic: “ميرو”
  • Asturian: “Meru”
  • Bengali: “মেরু”
  • Catalan: “Meru”
  • Cebuano: “Meru”
  • Chinese: “梅魯”
  • Chinese: “梅鲁”
  • Croatian: “Meru”
  • Danish: “Meru”
  • Dutch: “Meru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميرو”
  • Esperanto: “Mero”
  • Esperanto: “Meru”
  • Finnish: “Meru”
  • French: “Meru”
  • Georgian: “მერუ”
  • German: “Meru”
  • Greek: “Μερού”
  • Gujarati: “મેરૂ”
  • Hindi: “मेरु”
  • Indonesian: “Meru”
  • Irish: “Meru”
  • Italian: “Meru”
  • Japanese: “メル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Meru”
  • Kannada: “ಮೇರು”
  • Korean: “메루”
  • Latvian: “Meru”
  • Lithuanian: “Meru”
  • Malay: “Meru”
  • Maori: “Meru”
  • Marathi: “मेरु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meru”
  • Norwegian: “Meru”
  • Persian: “مرو، کنیا”
  • Persian: “مرو”
  • Polish: “Meru”
  • Portuguese: “Meru”
  • Romanian: “Meru, Kenya”
  • Romanian: “Meru”
  • Russian: “Меру”
  • Russian: “Меры”
  • Serbian: “Meru”
  • Serbian: “Меру”
  • Sinhala: “මේරු”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرو، کنیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرو”
  • Spanish: “Meru”
  • Swahili: “Meru, Kenya”
  • Swahili: “Meru”
  • Swedish: “Meru”
  • Tamil: “மெரு”
  • Telugu: “మెరు”
  • Thai: “เมรู”
  • Turkish: “Meru”
  • Ukrainian: “Меру”
  • Urdu: “میرو، کینیا”
  • Urdu: “میرو”
  • Vietnamese: “Meru”
  • Zulu: “Meru, Khenya”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Meru”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 2.0.