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Nairobi City County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. With an estimated population of 5,454,000 in 2024 , it is the third smallest yet the most populous of the counties, also serving as the capital of Kenya. In 2013, the county entity was effected, replacing Nairobi City Council, the long-standing unit of administration since pre-independence.
Kibera ( Kinubi: Forest or Jungle [1]) is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) from the city centre. [2] Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa. [3] [4] [5] The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census reports Kibera's population as 170,070, contrary to previous estimates ...
Location. Located 11 kilometres northeast of the Nairobi city centre, Korogocho's 1-1.5 square kilometres were originally on government owned land which was a vacant outskirt when it was founded by rural migrants to the city in the 1960s. It borders one of Nairobi's main rubbish dumps, Dandora. [5] Korogocho is an electoral ward within the ...
The Jubilee Insurance Company of Tanzania (JICT) is co-owned with local Tanzanian investors. It was the first privately owned insurance company to be licensed in the country, following the liberalisation of financial institutions ownership. Jubilee Holdings Limited became crosslisted on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), also in 2006.
Companies headquartered in Nairobi. The following is a list of prominent companies and organizations with their main headquarters in Nairobi: East African Breweries. Equity Group Holdings Limited. Gulf African Bank. KCB Group Limited. Chem-labs Limited. Kenya Airports Authority. Cambrian Valuers Limited.
Dagoretti. Coordinates: 01°18′00″S 36°46′00″E. Dagoretti is an area in the western part of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It straddles the Nairobi and Kiambu County boundary with the Dagoretti Road Reserve marking the psychological border point heading Northerly and North-Easterly. [1] Administratively it is one of eight divisions of ...
Nairobi (/ n aɪ ˈ r oʊ b i / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census.
Kayole is located approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Nairobi's central business district, straddled by Kangundo Road to the south, within the Eastlands area in Embakasi. It borders other low-income neighbourhoods such as Donholm, Njiru, Saika and Umoja. Electorally, Kayole is placed under Embakasi Central Constituency; the whole ...