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The city is located at latitude 1° 16' South and longitude 30° 53' East and occupies around 150 sq km. It is situated about 1660 m (5450 ft) above sea level. The main languages spoken are Swahili and English.
Nairobi was founded in 1899 as a supply depot for the Uganda Railway which was being constructed between Mombasa and Uganda. It was totally rebuilt in the early 1900s after an outbreak of plague and the burning of the original town. Thereafter the settlement continued to grow, becoming the capital of the British East African Protectorate in 1907 and the capital of the newly independent Kenya in 1963.
Nairobi is served by Jomo Kenyatta International AirportJomo Kenyatta International Airport is one of Kenya's large aviation facilities and the airport that serves the country with the most international flights. The airport's IATA Airport Code is NBO while its ICAO code is HKJK. Located in Nairobi, Kenya, it. Eastleigh Airport was the original landing strip in the pre- jetSee also: Jet (disambiguation A jet is a stream of fluid produced by discharge through an orifice into free space. Since gases are compressible fluids, the velocity attained by a jet of gas cannot be determined by Bernoulli's principle. Instead, if one us airlineAn airline is an organization providing aviation services to passengers and/or cargo. It owns or leases airliners with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit. Airline service era. It was used in a landing point on the 1930sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented Link Trainer invented Sc and 1940sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly passenger and mailPostal service redirects here. There is also a band called The Postal Service. For mail as armour, see chainmail. For digitally delivered mail, see Electronic mail. British mailboxes, visual counterparts to red telephone boxes, collect outbound mail for t route from SouthamptonThis page discusses the English city of Southampton. For other places named Southampton, see Southampton (disambiguation). Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. It is the closest city to the New Forest and lies at th to Cape Town. This route was served by flying boats between Britain and Kisumu and then by land-based aircraft on the routes to the south.
Nairobi is unique in having a protected game reserve, Nairobi National Park, within its borders.
The US Embassy in Nairobi was bombed in August 1998 by Osama bin Laden's terrorist group Al-Qaida. See: 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
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