Nairobi

Nairobi is the political, as well as financial and media capital of . A city of 4.8 million inhabitants, it's the largest and fastest growing city in the country and one of Africa's largest cities.
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  • Type: City with 3,140,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Kenya
  • Also known as: “Ekibuga ekikulu ekya Kenya”, “Kenya capital”, “Kenya capital city”, “Kenya’s capital”, “Kenyan capital”, “Mji mkuu wa Kenya”, “Nairoba”, “Nairobi, Kenya”, “Toropo kgolo”, and “Найроби қаласы”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: National Museums of Kenya and Nairobi Railway Museum.

Museum
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The is a state corporation…

Museum
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The is a railway museum…

Church
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The …

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pumwani and Kileleshwa.

Suburb
is an estate of Nairobi.

Suburb
is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi.

Suburb
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is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, , 6.6 kilometres from the city centre.

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
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Betawi: “Nairobi”
  • Bosnian: “Nairobi”
  • Breton: “Nairobi”
  • Bulgarian: “Найроби”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်ရိုဘီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Nairobi”
  • Cebuano: “Nairobi”
  • Central Bikol: “Nairobi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Nairobi”
  • Central Kurdish: “نایرۆبی”
  • Chechen: “Найроби”
  • Chinese: “內羅比”
  • Chinese: “內羅畢”
  • Chinese: “内罗毕”
  • Chinese: “奈洛比”
  • 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”
  • Extremaduran: “Nairobi”
  • Faroese: “Nairobi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nairobi”
  • Finnish: “Nairobi”
  • French: “Nairobi”
  • Fulah: “Nairobi”
  • Galician: “Nairobi”
  • Ganda: “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”
  • Karekare: “Nairobi”
  • 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”
  • Literary Chinese: “內羅畢”
  • 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”
  • Maori: “Ngāiropi”
  • 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 Dagaare: “Nairobi”
  • 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”
  • Tswana: “Nairobi”
  • 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”
  • “ma tomo Nalopi”
  • “Nairobi”

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