NYERI

Nyeri (officially known as Nyeri Municipality) is a town in situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya, which was the administrative headquarters of the country's former Central Province.Following the dissolution of the former provinces by Kenya's new constitution in August 26, 2010,Nyeri is now the largest town in the newly created Nyeri County.

Prominent People in Nyeri County

A number of renowned people have hailed from around Nyeri:
• Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2004)
• Mwai Kibaki (Kenya’s current president)
• Dedan Kimathi (a Mau Mau resistance leader)
• Catherine Ndereba (Olympic marathon Silver Medalist, world marathon champion, four time Boston Marathon winner and multiple time winner of Chicago and other marathons).
Nyeri is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a fighter in the Boer War and the founder of the Scouting movement, who once wrote “the nearer to Nyeri the nearer to bliss”
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Prominent People in Nyeri County

A number of renowned people have hailed from around Nyeri:
• Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2004)
• Mwai Kibaki (Kenya’s current president)
• Dedan Kimathi (a Mau Mau resistance leader)
• Catherine Ndereba (Olympic marathon Silver Medalist, world marathon champion, four time Boston Marathon winner and multiple time winner of Chicago and other marathons).
Nyeri is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a fighter in the Boer War and the founder of the Scouting movement, who once wrote “the nearer to Nyeri the nearer to bliss”
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The town is situated about 150 km (a two-hour drive) north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands, lying between the eastern base of the Aberdare (Nyandarua) Range, which forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley, and the western slopes of Mount Kenya.

Prominent People in Nyeri County

A number of renowned people have hailed from around Nyeri:
• Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2004)
• Mwai Kibaki (Kenya’s current president)
• Dedan Kimathi (a Mau Mau resistance leader)
• Catherine Ndereba (Olympic marathon Silver Medalist, world marathon champion, four time Boston Marathon winner and multiple time winner of Chicago and other marathons).
Nyeri is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a fighter in the Boer War and the founder of the Scouting movement, who once wrote “the nearer to Nyeri the nearer to bliss”
- See more at: http://nyerionline.com/about-nyeri-county/#sthash.lolWQK5h.dpuf

The town's population according to the 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census was 125,357. There is however a significant population of mainly Government and corporate workers ordinarily resident in Nyeri but who chose during the census to be counted in their areas of origin or areas where their families are resident.

 The history of Nyeri goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. The place was infact a  large part of an uninhabited forested area. the town itself began from military activity. Towards the end of 1902, as the British were establishing their colonial presence,Richard Meinertzhagen marched a strong military column meeting spirited resistance from the native Kikuyu warriors led by Wangombe Wa Ihura. The Kikuyu were eventually defeated.After Meinertzhagen's victory, a decision was reached to site a British post close to a little hill on the slopes of Mt. Kenya. The Kikuyu called the hill Kia-Nyiri while their Maasai neighbours called the hill Na-aier. The post took its name from the little hill. On 18 December 1902, Nyeri was founded. Shortly after the establishment of the post, a trickle of European settlers and missionaries and Indian merchants began to migrate into Nyeri and the surrounding areas. The town soon burgeoned into a trading centre for white settler farmers who produced cattle, wheat and coffee. The Nyeri Golf Club, The White Rhino Hotel,Outspan Hotel and the Aberdare Country Club at nearby Mweiga township are relics of those colonial days.
Some of the Prominent people that come from Nyeri include
- Wangari Maathai
- Former President Mwai Kibaki
- Dedan Kimathi a freedom fighter
- Catherine Ndereba
- and its is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden - Powell founder of the Scouts Movement world wide.

Prominent People in Nyeri County

A number of renowned people have hailed from around Nyeri:
• Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2004)
• Mwai Kibaki (Kenya’s current president)
• Dedan Kimathi (a Mau Mau resistance leader)
• Catherine Ndereba (Olympic marathon Silver Medalist, world marathon champion, four time Boston Marathon winner and multiple time winner of Chicago and other marathons).
Nyeri is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a fighter in the Boer War and the founder of the Scouting movement, who once wrote “the nearer to Nyeri the nearer to bliss”
- See more at: http://nyerionline.com/about-nyeri-county/#sthash.lolWQK5h.dpuf

Prominent People in Nyeri County

A number of renowned people have hailed from around Nyeri:
• Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2004)
• Mwai Kibaki (Kenya’s current president)
• Dedan Kimathi (a Mau Mau resistance leader)
• Catherine Ndereba (Olympic marathon Silver Medalist, world marathon champion, four time Boston Marathon winner and multiple time winner of Chicago and other marathons).
Nyeri is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a fighter in the Boer War and the founder of the Scouting movement, who once wrote “the nearer to Nyeri the nearer to bliss”
- See more at: http://nyerionline.com/about-nyeri-county/#sthash.lolWQK5h.dpuf