Crossword clues for nairobi
nairobi
- New look with Japanese sash? That's capital!
- New look needing sash from Japan's capital
- A robin flies around island capital
- Atmosphere Old Boy found in Northern Ireland’s capital city
- African capital on its own river
- Kenya capital
- East African capital
- "Out of Africa" setting
- Kenyatta University locale
- Kenyan city
- Kenya's largest city
- I, a robin (anag) — city
- Frequent safari starting point
- City that is home to Africa's largest ice rink
- City near Thika
- City near the Blixen Museum
- City in Mau-Mau country
- Capital with a Karen Blixen Museum
- Capital south of Addis Ababa
- Capital of British East Africa, once
- Capital east of Lake Victoria
- Richard Leakey's birthplace
- Capital near a game reserve
- Safari-goer's starting point
- The Green City in the Sun
- Uhuru Park locale
- Capital near the Great Rift Valley
- Capital in sight of Kilimanjaro
- Safari Capital of the World
- A center for tourist safaris
- The capital and largest city of Kenya
- Kenya's capital
- Safari city
- Capital of Kenya
- City in Kenya
- Grandee, one retaining aura somewhere in Africa
- City where bird's docked after brief tack
- Capital in north having atmosphere and charm
- Excellent plunder in some British region's capital
- African capital where African's in retreat, British coming in for victory
- Kenyan capital
- Setback for West African, confusing endings of verb in East African capital
Wikipedia
Nairobi (; ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. It is famous for having the Nairobi National Park, the world's only game reserve found within a major city. The city and its surrounding area also form Nairobi County, whose current governor is Evans Kidero and Deputy Governor is Jonathan Mueke.
The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to "cool water". The phrase is also the Maasai name of the Nairobi river, which in turn lent its name to the city. However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun", and is surrounded by several expanding villa suburbs.
Nairobi was founded in 1899 by the colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda Railway. The town quickly grew to replace Machakos as the capital of Kenya in 1907. After independence in 1963, Nairobi became the capital of the Republic of Kenya. During Kenya's colonial period, the city became a centre for the colony's coffee, tea and sisal industry. The city lies on the River Athi in the southern part of the country, and has an elevation of above sea level.
With a population of 3.36 million in 2011, Nairobi is the second-largest city by population in the African Great Lakes region after Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. According to the 2009 census, in the administrative area of Nairobi, 3,138,295 inhabitants lived within . Nairobi is the 14th-largest city in Africa, including the population of its suburbs.
Home to thousands of Kenyan businesses and over 100 major international companies and organisations, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), Nairobi is an established hub for business and culture. The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) is one of the largest in Africa and the second-oldest exchange on the continent. It is Africa's fourth-largest exchange in terms of trading volume, capable of making 10 million trades a day.
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.
Nairobi may also refer to:
Usage examples of "nairobi".
While one JTTF agent searched his home with Kenyan police, other agents confronted El-Hage at Nairobi Airport.
It was not a very big Chaga, not like the Kilimanjaro Chaga that had swallowed Moshi and Arusha and all the big Tanzanian towns at the foot of the mountain and was now halfway to Nairobi.
To that end we have arranged that James and David will take you on the first leg as far as Nairobi.
Who knew as much about it all as anyone and lived in Nairobi, and I had his address and a good nine hours I could use to find him in.
The coast is part Arab, part Indian, as well as African, whereas Nairobi is pure Africa.
Half a year after Peter Cardinal died, in the spring of 1988, Gene showed up in Nairobi with twenty shipping crates full of biohazard gear and scientific equipment.
In four years the Chaga had swallowed up Kilimanjaro, and Amboseli, and the border country of Namanga and was advancing up the A104 on Kajiado and Nairobi.
He took us down into the Projection Room where computers drew huge plans on circular tables: of the Chaga now, the Chaga in five years time and the Chaga when it met with its brother from the south and both of them swallowed Nairobi like two old men arguing over a stick of sugar cane.
If we want to win the hearts and minds of people in Caracas, Jakarta, Nairobi, or Tehran, dispersing ballot boxes will not be enough.
The searchlight was remorselessly on Tessa, the Society Girl Turned Oxbridge Lawyer, the Princess Diana of the African Poor, the Mother Teresa of the Nairobi Slums and the FO Angel Who Gave a Damn.
At one o'clock in the morning, he put in a telephone call to Nairobi, to the Old Norfolk Hotel, where two agents from his office, Almon Johnston and Link Peters, had checked in some hours earlier.
We drove out through the centre of Nairobi and took the road north-east to Thika, climbing steadily into old settler country of citrus fruit, jacaranda everywhere and the Cape chestnut trees in flower.
They were in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, and a major center for this particular trade.
From Nairobi they changed to an Air Malawi commercial flight scheduled directly for Blantyre, the capital of Malawi.
The charter flight is due to arrive at three, and we must get back to Nairobi before dark.