Meru Central District

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Meru Central 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 North District, Meru South District, and Tharaka District.

Meru Central 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 Central 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 Central also has some resident Europeans predominantly British in ancestry.

The district headquarters is in Meru. The district has three constituencies: South Imenti, Central Imenti and North Imenti.

Local authorities (councils)
Authority	Type	Population*	Urban pop.*
Meru	Municipality	42,677	42,677
Meru County	County	456,203	10,589
Total	-	498,880	53,266
* 1999 census. Source: [1]

Administrative divisions
Division	Population*	Urban pop.*	Headquarters
Abogeta	56,575	0
Abothuguchi Central	29,673	0
Abothuguchi East	37,020	0
Abothuguchi West	59,823	0
Buuri	40,517	0
Igoji	45,173	0	Igoji
Miriga Mieru East	56,958	2,961
Miriga Mieru West	69,469	36,360	Meru
Nkuene	54,554	8,051
Timau	49,118	1,338	Timau
Total	498,880	48,710	-
* 1999 census. Sources: [2], [3],