Nairobi City, in the Sun - the Capital City and Administrative Centre of Kenya
Nairobi, Capital City and 47th County Nairobi gets its name from two Masai words that mean Land of cool waters - enkare Nairobi. The area covered by the city was marshland before the Mombasa Uganda railway was built. The City owes its existence to the railway line whose engineers decided that it was a good place for a railway station to serve the surrounding settler farms during that colonial period. At it time it was not even considered for a capital. The coastal town of Mombasa had played the role of capital before construction of the railway, but when the British established centres inland, the preferred capital was Machakos town, the capital of Machakos County Today. Nairobi is the only capital City in Africa with National park that is less than ten Kilometers from the Central Business District. From the humble beginning of a marshland, Nairobi has grown to a metropolis with over three million inhabitants. It is also the only City in Kenya to be accorded C...