Nairobi
Nairobi, a city of 4.4 million on the Nairobi River. It is the political, financial and media capital of Kenya, and a transit point that most travellers to Kenya will pass through.Photo: Daryona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Africanmodern, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
National Museums of Kenya
Museum
Photo: Krg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museums of Kenya is a state corporation that manages museums, sites and monuments in Kenya.
Times Tower
Government office
The Times Tower, also known as the New Central Bank Tower, is an office tower in Nairobi, Kenya.
Nairobi Railway Museum
Museum
Photo: robinhutton, CC BY 2.0.
The Nairobi Railway Museum is a railway museum in Nairobi, Kenya, adjacent to Nairobi railway station.
Localities in the Area
Pumwani
Suburb
Pumwani is an estate of Nairobi. It is one of the oldest estates in Nairobi's eastlands.
Parklands
Suburb
Parklands is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya.
Nairobi
- Type: City with 3,140,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Kenya
- Categories: capital city, administrative territorial entity of Kenya, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Nairobi City County, Southern Rift Valley, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.2833° or 1° 16' 60" southLongitude
36.8172° or 36° 49' 2" eastPopulation
3,140,000Elevation
1,684 metres (5,525 feet)IATA airport code
NBOUnited Nations Location Code
KE NBOOpen Location Code
6GCRPR88+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565105OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
184745Wikidata ID
Q3870Nairobi Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Nairobi
- Adyghe: Найроби
- Afar: Nayrobi
- Afrikaans: Nairobi
- Akan: Nairobi
- Albanian: Nairobi
- Amharic: ናይሮቢ
- Arabic: Nairobi
- Arabic: نيروبي
- Aragonese: Nairobi
- Armenian: Նայրոբի
- Asturian: Nairobi
- Avaric: Nairobi
- Awadhi: नैरोबी
- Azerbaijani: Nayrobi
- Balinese: Nairobi
- Bambara: 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 Kurdish: نایرۆبی
- Chechen: Найроби
- Chinese: Nairobi
- Chinese: 內羅比
- Chinese: 内罗毕/內羅畢
- Chinese: 内罗毕
- Chinese: 奈洛比
- Chinese: 賴羅比
- Cornish: Nairobi
- Croatian: Nairobi
- Czech: Nairobi
- Dagbani: Nairobi
- Danish: Nairobi
- Dimli (individual language): Nairobi
- Dotyali: नैरोबी
- Dutch: Nairobi
- Eastern Mari: Найроби
- Egyptian Arabic: نايروبى
- English: Kenya's capital
- English: Kenya capital
- English: Kenya capital city
- English: Kenyan capital
- Erzya: Найроби ош
- Esperanto: Nairobo
- Esperanto: Najrobio
- Esperanto: Najrobo
- Estonian: Nairobi
- 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
- Hausa: Nairobi
- Hebrew: ניירובי
- Hindi: नैरोबी
- Hungarian: 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
- Kazakh: Найроби қаласы
- Kikuyu: Nairobi
- Kinyarwanda: Nairobi
- Kirghiz: Найроби
- Kongo: Nairobi
- Korean: 나이로비
- Kotava: Nairobi
- Kurdish: Nairobî
- Ladin: Nairobi
- Lao: 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
- Malagasy: Nairobi
- Malay: Nairobi
- Malayalam: നയ്റോബി
- Manipuri: ꯅꯥꯏꯔꯣꯕꯤ
- Maori: Nairobi
- Marathi: नैरोबी
- Mazanderani: نایروبی
- Min Dong Chinese: Nairobi
- Min Nan Chinese: Nairobi
- Mingrelian: ნაირობი
- Moksha: Найроби
- Mongolian: Найроби
- Mongolian: ꯅꯥꯏꯔꯣꯕꯤ
- 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: Nairobi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nairobi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Samogitian: Nairobis
- Santali: ᱱᱟᱭᱨᱳᱵᱤ
- Sardinian: Nairobi
- Scots: Nairobi
- Scottish Gaelic: Nairobi
- Serbian: Најроби
- Serbo-Croatian: Nairobi
- Serbo-Croatian: Nayrubi
- Shona: Nairobi
- Sicilian: Nairobi
- Silesian: Nairobi
- Sinhala: නයිරෝබි
- Skolt Sami: Nairobi
- Slovak: Nairobi
- Slovenian: Nairobi
- Somali: Nayroobi
- South Azerbaijani: نایروبی
- 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།
- 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: Nairobi
- Nairoba
- नायरोबी
Other Places Named Nairobi
In the Area
Nairobi is situated close to the quarters City Square and Grogon.
- City CentreQuarter
- Upper HillSuburb
- NgaraSuburb
- ChiromoQuarter
- MuthurwaQuarter
- Parklands Shopping CentreSuburb
Popular Destinations in Southern Rift Valley
Escape to a Random Place
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