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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 in area of the counties, yet the most populous one. It also serves as the capital of Kenya. The county entity was effected in 2013, replacing Nairobi City Council, which had been the long-standing unit of local ...
50.081 shillings per Int. dollar based on PPP (IMF Oct. 2018) [3]; Rank County GDP in KSh. millions/= GDP in US$ millions (PPP) 1 Nairobi County: 5,192,323 49,309 2 Kiambu County
Water supply and sanitation in Nairobi is characterised by achievements and challenges. Among the achievements is the expansion of infrastructure to keep pace with population growth, in particular through the construction of the Thika Dam and associated water treatment plant and pipelines during the 1990s; the transformation of the municipal water department into an autonomous utility in 2003 ...
Dandora Waste To Energy Power Station. / 1.22444°S 37.03361°E / -1.22444; 37.03361. The Dandora Waste To Energy Power Station, also Nairobi Waste To Energy Power Station, is a planned 45 megawatts waste-fired thermal power plant in the city of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The power station is owned and is under development by Kenya ...
Embakasi Central Constituency. Embakasi Central is a constituency in Nairobi and is one of seventeen constituencies in Nairobi County, with an area of 14.30 km 2 (5.5 sq mi). [1][2] Embakasi Central includes five electoral wards: Kayole North, Kayole Central, Kayole South, Komarock, and Matopeni/Spring Valley. [3]
The earliest account of Nairobi 's / naɪˈroʊbɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists. The railway complex and the building around ...
The Nairobi expressway is a 27 km toll road connecting the Eastern Nairobi neighbourhood of Mulolongo to the uptown neighbourhood of Westlands at James Gichuru junction through Nairobi CBD. The road is directly to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport enabling travellers to access the airport faster avoiding the heavy traffic on Mombasa Road ...
The Dam constructed in 1953 [2] holds back a reservoir with storage capacity of 98,000 m 3 (79 acre⋅ft) and surface area of 350,000 m 2 (86 acres). It is a shallow lake with an average depth on only 2.76 m (9.1 ft) [1] Inflow is from the Motoine River, from rainfall, and waste water from the un sewered Kibera settlement. [1]