Nairobi City County

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Nairobi City County
County
Nairobi City Hall
Coat of arms
Location in Kenya
Country	Kenya
Formed	4 March 2013
Capital	Nairobi
Sub-counties	List Dagoretti Embakasi Lang'ata Kamukunji Kasarani Kibra Makadara Mathare Njiru Starehe Westlands
Government
• Governor	Sakaja Johnson
• Senator	Edwin Sifuna
• County Woman Representative	Esther Passaris
Area
• Total	696.1 km2 (268.8 sq mi)
• Rank	45th
Elevation	1,795 m (5,889 ft)
Population  (2019)[1]
• Total	4,397,073
• Rank	1st
• Density	6,300/km2 (16,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+03:00 (EAT)
HDI (2019)	0.681[2] - medium
Poverty Rate	1.3 %[3] - $1.90/day
Website	nairobi.go.ke

Nairobi City County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. With an estimated population of 5,454,000 in 2024, it is the third-smallest in area of the counties, yet the most populous one. It also serves as the capital of Kenya. The county entity was effected in 2013, replacing Nairobi City Council, which had been the long-standing unit of local administration since before Kenya's independence. The city county consists of eleven gazetted sub-counties and eighty-five electoral wards. On the national level, Nairobi also sends seventeen Members of Parliament across the constituencies and one County Woman Representative to the National Assembly; and one senator to the Senate. The county government, which is allotted devolved functions as stated in the Constitution of Kenya, is headed by the county governor, who appoints his cabinet. The county's legislature is headed by the County Speaker, who presides over the County Assembly. The Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) are elected from single-member districts and represent their respective electoral wards. Additional MCAs are also nominated by political parties as a form of affirmative action.

Nairobi City County shares the same boundaries as the former Nairobi Province. Kenya's eight provinces were sub-divided into forty-seven counties as stated in the constitution, based on the forty-seven districts that were established prior to 1992.

On 25 August 2022, after the general elections in Kenya, Johnson Sakaja was sworn-in as the fourth Governor of Nairobi County.^[4]