Kenya
Southern Rift Valley
Nairobi County

Nairobi

Nairobi is a city of 4.4 million on the Nairobi River. It is the political, financial and media capital of , and a transit point that most travellers to Kenya will pass through.
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  • Type: City with 3,140,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Kenya
  • Also known as: “Kenya capital”, “Kenya capital city”, “Kenya’s capital”, “Kenyan capital”, “Nairoba”, and “Nairobi, Kenya”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museums of Kenya and Nairobi Railway Museum.

Museum
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The is a state corporation that manages museums, sites and monuments in . It carries out heritage research, and has expertise in subjects ranging from palaeontology, archeology, ethnography and biodiversity research and conservation.

Museum
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The is a railway museum in Nairobi, , adjacent to . Containing exhibits from the defunct East African Railways, it was opened in 1971 by East African Railways and Harbours Corporation.

Church
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The is a Catholic Church Cathedral and Basilica dedicated to the Holy Family located in Nairobi. The Basilica is the seat of the Archdiocese of Nairobi.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pumwani and Kileleshwa.

Suburb
is an estate of Nairobi. It is one of the oldest estates in Nairobi's eastlands. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 42,461, a population density of 34,767/km2.

Suburb
is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is located approximately 5.2 kilometres from Nairobi's central business district. The neighbourhood was originally a low-density leafy suburb but after a change in zoning regulations in the early 2000s, there has been significant mushrooming of high-rise flats in the area.

Suburb
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is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, , 6.6 kilometres from the city centre. is the largest slum in Nairobi, and also the largest urban slum in all of Africa.

Nairobi

Latitude
-1.289° or 1° 17′ 20″ south
Longitude
36.8173° or 36° 49′ 2″ east
Population
3,140,000
Elevation
1,684 metres (5,525 feet)
IATA airport code
NBO
United Nations Location Code
KE NBO
Open location code
6GCRPR68+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565105
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
184745
Wiki­data ID
Q3870
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zulu—“Nairobi” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Найроби”
  • Afrikaans: “Nairobi”
  • Akan: “Nairobi”
  • Albanian: “Nairobi”
  • Amharic: “ናይሮቢ”
  • Arabic: “نيروبي”
  • Aragonese: “Nairobi”
  • Armenian: “Նայրոբի”
  • Assamese: “নাইৰোবি”
  • Asturian: “Nairobi”
  • Awadhi: “नैरोबी”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nayrobi”
  • Balinese: “Nairobi”
  • Bambara: “Nairobi”
  • Banjar: “Nairobi”
  • Bashkir: “Найроби”
  • Basque: “Nairobi”
  • Belarusian: “Найробі”
  • Bengali: “নাইরোবি”
  • Bosnian: “Nairobi”
  • Breton: “Nairobi”
  • Bulgarian: “Найроби”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်ရိုဘီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Nairobi”
  • Cebuano: “Nairobi”
  • Central Bikol: “Nairobi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Nairobi”
  • Central Kurdish: “نایرۆبی”
  • Chechen: “Найроби”
  • Chinese: “Nairobi”
  • Chinese: “內羅比”
  • Chinese: “內羅畢”
  • Chinese: “内罗毕/內羅畢/奈洛比”
  • Chinese: “内罗毕”
  • Chinese: “奈洛比”
  • Chinese: “賴羅比”
  • Cornish: “Nairobi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nayrobi”
  • Croatian: “Nairobi”
  • Czech: “Nairobi”
  • Dagbani: “Nairobi”
  • Danish: “Nairobi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nairobi”
  • Dotyali: “नैरोबी”
  • Dutch: “Nairobi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Найроби”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نايروبى”
  • Erzya: “Найроби ош”
  • Esperanto: “Najrobio”
  • Esperanto: “Najrobo”
  • Estonian: “Nairobi”
  • Ewe: “Nairobi ƒe ŋkɔ”
  • Faroese: “Nairobi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nairobi”
  • Finnish: “Nairobi”
  • French: “Nairobi”
  • Fulah: “Nairobi”
  • Galician: “Nairobi”
  • Georgian: “ნაირობი”
  • German: “Nairobi”
  • Greek: “Ναϊρόμπι”
  • Guarani: “Nairóvi”
  • Gujarati: “નૈરોબી”
  • Haitian: “Nayrobi”
  • Haitian: “Naywobi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nai-lo̍k-pí”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nairobi”
  • Hausa: “Nairobi”
  • Hebrew: “ניירובי”
  • Hindi: “नायरोबी”
  • Hindi: “नैरोबी”
  • Hungarian: “Nairobi”
  • Iban: “Nairobi”
  • Icelandic: “Naíróbí”
  • Ido: “Nairobi”
  • Iloko: “Nairobi”
  • Inari Sami: “Nairobi”
  • Indonesian: “Nairobi”
  • Ingush: “Найроби”
  • Interlingua: “Nairobi”
  • Interlingue: “Nairobi”
  • Irish: “Nairobi”
  • Italian: “Nairobi”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nairobi”
  • Japanese: “ナイロビ”
  • Javanese: “Nairobi”
  • Kabiyè: “Nayiiroobii”
  • Kabyle: “Nairobi”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nairobi”
  • Kannada: “ನೈರೋಬಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nayrobi”
  • Kazakh: “Найроби қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Найроби”
  • Kikuyu: “Nairobi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nairobi”
  • Kirghiz: “Найроби”
  • Komering: “Nairobi”
  • Kongo: “Nairobi”
  • Korean: “나이로비”
  • Kotava: “Nairobi”
  • Kurdish: “Nairobî”
  • Ladin: “Nairobi”
  • Latin: “Nairobia”
  • Latvian: “Nairobi”
  • Lezghian: “Найроби”
  • Ligurian: “Nairobi”
  • Limburgan: “Nairobi”
  • Lingala: “Nairobi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nairobi”
  • Lithuanian: “Nairobis”
  • Livvi: “Nairobi”
  • Lombard: “Nairobi”
  • Low German: “Nairobi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nairobi”
  • Macedonian: “Најроби”
  • Madurese: “Nairobi”
  • Magahi: “नैरोबी”
  • Malagasy: “Nairobi”
  • Malay: “Nairobi”
  • Malayalam: “നയ്റോബി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯥꯏꯔꯣꯕꯤ”
  • Maori: “Nairobi”
  • Marathi: “नैरोबी”
  • Mazanderani: “نایروبی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nairobi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nairobi”
  • Minangkabau: “Nairobi”
  • Mingrelian: “ნაირობი”
  • Moksha: “Найроби”
  • Mongolian: “Найроби”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نايروبي”
  • Nauru: “Nairobi”
  • Navajo: “Tó Sikʼaz (Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah)”
  • Navajo: “Tó Sikʼaz”
  • Neapolitan: “Nairobi”
  • Nepali: “नैरोबी”
  • Newari: “नैरोबी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nairobi”
  • Northern Sami: “Nairobi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nairobi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nairobi”
  • Norwegian: “Nairobi”
  • Novial: “Nayrobi”
  • Nyanja: “Nairobi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nairòbi”
  • Ossetian: “Найроби”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਇਰੋਬੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੈਰੋਬੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Nairobi”
  • Pedi: “Nairobi”
  • Persian: “نایروبی”
  • Piemontese: “Nairòbi”
  • Polish: “Nairobi”
  • Portuguese: “Nairobi”
  • Portuguese: “Nairóbi”
  • Pushto: “نایروبی”
  • Quechua: “Nairobi”
  • Romanian: “Nairobi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Найроби”
  • Russian: “Найроби”
  • Rusyn: “Найробі”
  • Sakizaya: “Na-low-pi”
  • Samogitian: “Nairobis”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱟᱭᱨᱳᱵᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Nairobi”
  • Scots: “Nairobi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nairobi”
  • Serbian: “Најроби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nairobi”
  • Shona: “Nairobi”
  • Sicilian: “Nairobi”
  • Silesian: “Nairobi”
  • Sindhi: “نيروبي”
  • Sinhala: “නයිරෝබි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nairobi”
  • Slovak: “Nairobi”
  • Slovenian: “Nairobi”
  • Somali: “Nayroobi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نایروبی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Nairobi”
  • Spanish: “Nairobi”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵏⴰⵢⵔⵓⴱⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Nairobi”
  • Swahili: “Nairobi”
  • Swati: “Nairobi”
  • Swedish: “Nairobi”
  • Swiss German: “Nairobi”
  • Tachelhit: “Nayrubi”
  • Tagalog: “Nairobi”
  • Tajik: “Найроби”
  • Tajik: “Найробӣ”
  • Talysh: “Najrobi”
  • Tamil: “நைரோபி”
  • Tatar: “Найроби”
  • Telugu: “నైరోబి”
  • Thai: “ไนโรบี”
  • Tibetan: “ནའི་རོ་བི།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Nairobi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nairobi”
  • Tswana: “Nairobi”
  • Tswana: “Toropo kgolo”
  • Turkish: “Nairobi”
  • Turkmen: “Naýrobi”
  • Twi: “Nairobi”
  • Udmurt: “Найроби”
  • Uighur: “نايروبى”
  • Ukrainian: “Найробі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nairobi”
  • Urdu: “نیروبی”
  • Uzbek: “Nayrobi”
  • Venetian: “Nairobi”
  • Veps: “Nairobi”
  • Vietnamese: “Nairobi”
  • Volapük: “Nairobi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nairobi”
  • Welsh: “Nairobi”
  • Western Armenian: “Նայրոպի”
  • Western Frisian: “Nairobi”
  • Western Frisian: “Nairoby”
  • Western Mari: “Найроби”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیروبی”
  • Wolof: “Nairobi”
  • Wu Chinese: “内罗毕”
  • Yakut: “Найроби”
  • Yiddish: “נייראבי”
  • Yoruba: “Nairobi”
  • Yue Chinese: “賴羅比”
  • Zulu: “i-Nairobi”
  • Zulu: “Nairobi”
  • “Nairobi”
  • “Nairobis”

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