Nairobi City County

Nairobi City County
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)
• Total	4,397,073
• Rank	1st
• Density	6,300/km2 (16,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+03:00 (EAT)
HDI (2019)	0.681; - medium
Poverty Rate	1.3 %; - $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 yet the most populous of the counties, also serving as the capital of Kenya. In 2013, the county entity was effected, replacing Nairobi City Council, the long-standing unit of administration since pre-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; one senator to the Senate. The county government, which is allocated devolved functions as per the constitution, 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: single-member elected Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) 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 then Nairobi Province; Kenya's eight provinces were sub-divided into forty seven Counties of Kenya as per the Constitution of Kenya, 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]

^ "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume I: Population by County and Sub-County". knbs.or.ke. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
^ Global Data Lab. "Human Development Indices: Sub-national HDI". globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
^ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – World Poverty Clock". WorldPoverty.io. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
^ "Sakaja sworn in as the 4th Governor of Nairobi City County. | Nairobi City County". 25 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

[currentpop-1] "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume I: Population by County and Sub-County". knbs.or.ke. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.

[GlobalDataLab-2] Global Data Lab. "Human Development Indices: Sub-national HDI". globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

[World_Poverty_Clock-3] "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – World Poverty Clock". WorldPoverty.io. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

[4] "Sakaja sworn in as the 4th Governor of Nairobi City County. | Nairobi City County". 25 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

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