Date
Type Settlement
Usage English, Swahili, Kikuyu, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Turkish, Japanese, Korean
Scripts ナイロビ(Japanese Katakana) 나이로비(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced Pron. /naɪ.ˈɹoʊ.bi/(English) /nɛ.ʁɔ.bi/(French) /naj.ˈrɔ.bi/(Italian) /naj.ˈʁoː.bi/(Danish) /ˈnaj.rɔ.bi/(Slovak) /nä.i.ɾo̞.bi/(Japanese) /na.i.ɾo.bi/(Korean)
Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as NAİROBİ in uppercase and nairobi in lowercase.
Meaning & History
From Maasai enkare nyrobi meaning "cold water", referencing a nearby river. This is the name of the capital city of Kenya. It was founded in 1899 by the British colonial authorities.