page_title: Nairobi County
section_title: Nairobi Metro
hierarchical_section_title: Nairobi County / Nairobi Metro
caption_attribution_description: English: Nairobi County in Nairobi MetroKiswahili: Kaunti ya Nairobi kwenye Nairobi Metro
context_page_description: Nairobi County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. The third smallest yet the most populous of the counties, it is coterminous with the city of Nairobi, which is also the capital and largest city of Kenya.
  Nairobi County was founded in 2013 on the same boundaries as Nairobi Province, after Kenya's 8 provinces were subdivided into 47 counties.
context_section_description: Nairobi County is within Greater Nairobi which consists of 5 out of 47 counties in Kenya but the area generates about 60% of the nation's wealth. The counties are:
   Source: NairobiMetro/ [Kenya Census 2019
caption: Nairobi County (red) within Nairobi Metro (green)
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