Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census. The name comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare NairoBI, which translates to ‘cool water’ The Nairobi Securities Exchange is one of the largest in Africa.
About Nairobi, Kenya in brief
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census. The Nairobi Securities Exchange is one of the largest in Africa. It is Africa’s fourth-largest exchange in terms of trading volume, capable of making 10 million trades a day. The name comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare NairoBI, which translates to \”cool water\”, a reference to the Nairobian River which flows through the city. The town was founded in 1899 by the colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda Railway. It became the capital of the East Africa Protectorate in 1907. After independence in 1963, it became the capital of the Republic of Kenya. It lies in the south central part of Kenya, at an elevation of 1,795 metres. According to the2019 census, in the administrative area of Nairo Bi, 4,400,000 inhabitants lived within 696 km2. The Greater Nairoba Metropolitan region consists of 5 out of 47 counties in Kenya, which generates about 60% of the entire nation’s GDP. It also has a large game reserve with a large population of lions and hippos. The area is home to thousands of Kenyan businesses and over 100 major international companies and organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme and the U.N. Office at N Cairobi. The city is popularly referred to as the Green City in the Sun.
During Kenya’s colonial period, the city became a centre for the colony’s coffee, tea and sisal industry. In the early 1900s, Bazaar Street was completely rebuilt after an outbreak of plague and the burning of the original town. Between 1902 and 1910, the town’s population rose from 5,000 to 16,000 and grew around administration and tourism, initially in the form of big game hunting. In 1921, NairoBi was declared to be a municipality. By the outset of the First World War, Nairobori was established as a European settler colony through immigration and land alienation. Due to this growth, the blend of ethnicities within the town’s boundaries caused planning issues; Thororn Thororn and his team would have described it as the ‘Nairoborian Problem’ The city had 24,000 residents in 1919, of which 12,000 were native Africans, where they would go on to constitute a majority for the next decade for the majority of the next 20 years. In 1923, the government decided that the city should be a city, and declared it to be so. In 1926, the first Nairoberi was established, and in 1928, it was declared a city. In 1931, the Kenyan government declared Nairobera to be the capital city of the country. In 1936, the country became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1958, the Kenya National Assembly became the first African nation to ratify the UN Charter.
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