Meru North District

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Meru North District is one of the seventy-one districts of Kenya, located in that country's Eastern Province. In 1992, it was split from the large Meru District, along with Meru Central District, Meru South District, and Tharaka District.

Meru North District is the home of the Ameru (Meru) tribe, which is sometimes described as being related to other tribes living around the Mount Kenya region: the Kikuyu and the Embu people. The Ameru are generally called "Bantu" people who have been native to the Mt. Kenya area for many, many years — well before colonization of Kenya by Great Britain in the 19th Century. The people of Meru North District are now predominantly Christian — Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and other denominations, reflecting the work of missionaries — with also minorities of Indian descent, who are mainly Hindus, and African/Arab descent, who are Muslims. Meru North also has some resident Europeans predominantly British in ancestry.

The district headquarters is in Maua. The district has four constituencies: Tigania East, Igembe, Tigania West and Ntonyiri.

Local authorities (councils)
Authority	Type	Population*	Urban pop.*
Maua	Municipality	40,820	9,763
Nyambene	County	563,230	2,139
Total	-	604,050	11,902
* 1999 census. Source: [1]

Administrative divisions
Division	Population*	Urban pop.*	Headquarters
Akithi	43,096	0
Igembe Central	41,944	8,739	Maua
Igembe East	28,575	0
Igembe North	58,046	0
Igembe South	18,209	0
Igembe S/East	18,700	0
Igembe S/West	21,791	0
Laare	65,428	1,895	Lare
Mutuati	56,751	0	Mutuati
Ndoleli	54,730	0
Tigania Central	45,061	0
Tigania East	30,944	0
Tigania North	49,098	0
Tigania West (Kianjai)	32,266	0
Uringu	39,003	0
Total	604,050	10,634	-
* 1999 census. Sources: [2], [3],