Othaya
Sign in to saveOthaya is a Kenyan town about 120 kilometres north of Nairobi, the capital. As of the 1999 census, Othaya had a population of 21,427, of which 4,108 were classified as core urban; the majority of the residents belong to the Kikuyu ethnic group. Othaya is part of Nyeri County. It has been a traditionally agricultural area with coffee and tea as the main cash crops, with many residents being subsistence farmers. Othaya is home to Chinga dam, the largest water reservoir in Nyeri County.
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Place details
- Locality
- karima ward
- Region
- Nyeri
- Country
- Kenya
- Population
- 6,650
- Timezone
- Africa/Nairobi
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Kenya
- Located in
- Nyeri County
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Othaya is a Kenyan town about 120 kilometres north of Nairobi, the capital. As of the 1999 census, Othaya had a population of 21,427, of which 4,108 were classified as core urban; the majority of the residents belong to the Kikuyu ethnic group. Othaya is part of Nyeri County. It has been a traditionally agricultural area with coffee and tea as the main cash crops, with many residents being subsistence farmers. Othaya is home to Chinga dam, the largest water reservoir in Nyeri County.
Mwai Kibaki, the third and former President of Kenya, as well as the third Member of Parliament of Othaya (1974-2013) was born in Gatuyaini, a village in Othaya.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Othaya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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