Nyeri

Nyeri is a town situated within the Central Highlands of Kenya. It is the county headquarters of Nyeri County. It is one of the oldest towns in Kenya having been mounted in the British colonial technology. The city became the vital administrative headquarters of the united states of america's former Central Province. Following the dissolution of the previous provinces through Kenya's new constitution on 26 August 2010, Nyeri town is now the biggest metropolis in the newly created Nyeri County. Nyeri hosts the tomb of the founder Lord Baden Powel, the founder of the Scout motion.

It is likewise the home town the late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. Nyeri's Roman Catholic Cathedral also hosts the tomb of Blessed Irene Stefani "Nyaatha" who changed into beatified on 23 May 2015 in Nyeri. Half her remains preserved within the Cathedral, and the alternative 1/2 at Gikondi. The town is likewise the home of the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology based via the local community within the early 1970s as an institute of era and transformed into a totally fledged university in 2012.