Thika District is a former administrative district in the Central Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Thika. The district was adjacent to the northeastern border of Nairobi. The district had a population of 645.713 [1].
In 2010, the district was eliminated and absorbed into Kiambu County.
The district was predominantly rural, but its urban population was soaring as Nairobi is growing rapidly. Kikuyu were the dominant tribe in the district.
Local authorities (councils)
Authority
Type
Population*
Urban pop.*
Thika
Municipality
88,265
82,665
Ruiru
Municipality
109,349
79,741
Thika county
County
448,099
5,968
Total
-
645,713
168,374
* 1999 census. Source: [2]
Administrative divisions
Division
Population*
Urban pop.*
Headquarters
Gatanga
103,048
0
Gatundu
113,699
0
Gatundu
Kakuzi
71,622
0
Kamwangi (Gatundu north)
99,460
0
Kamwangi
Ruiru (Juja)
150,710
81,709
Ruiru
Thika municipality
107,174
75,893
Thika
Total
645,713
157,602
* 1999 census. Sources: [3], [4],
The district had four constituencies:
Gatanga Constituency (consisted of Gatanga and Kakuzi divisions)
ThikaDistrict is a former administrative district in the Central Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Thika. The district was adjacent to the northeastern...
to Thika. The town was the headquarters of Thika West district following the split of the larger Thikadistrict (created in 1994) into five districts: Ruiru...
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Kiambu County. The area is also domiciled within what was formerly ThikaDistrict. Educational institutions within the estate include Danjose Academy...
absorbing part ThikaDistrict, losing some of its regions to Nairobi such as Dagoretti while gaining some including Ruiru. By the 1970s, ThikaDistrict had been...
sold to new owners in the post-colonial era. Tatu City can be accessed via Thika Road, Nairobi Eastern Bypass Highway, Nairobi Northern Bypass Highway, and...
Thika High School is a boys-only boarding high school located in ThikaDistrict in Central Province, Kenya. Thika High School was founded in 1951, while...
Kiambu County, one of four in the former ThikaDistrict. The constituency has four wards, all of which are within Thika County Council. The constituency was...
of twelve constituencies in Kiambu County, one of four in the former ThikaDistrict. The constituency was established for the 1969 elections. Before the...
in ThikaDistrict, Central Province, Kenya. It is next to the Kieni Forest. It is part of Githobokini ward of Gatundu North Constituency and Thika County...
physically disabled children. The school is situated in Thika Municipality in ThikaDistrict in the Central Province of Kenya. It is about 45 kilometers...
what was supposed to be a routine, minor and painless operation at the ThikaDistrict Hospital to remove a lipoma from his back. He had been assured by a...
Kikuyu people primarily from the then Kiambu District of Kenya (now Kiambu and a portion of ThikaDistrict) who benefited financially and politically from...
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Edith Mwihaki, who died in 1999. His home village was Muthurumbi in ThikaDistrict, near Gatundu town. His home was located only five kilometres from Kenyatta's...
chain in Kenya. The Head Office of Maathai Supermarkets is located along Thika road, Highpoint juja, in downtown Kiambu County, approximately 33 kilometres...
northeast of Nairobi's central business district off Thika Road. The Kasarani neighbourhood is located along the Thika Road, approximately 12 kilometres (7...
approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) northeast of Nairobi's central business district off Thika Road. The neighbourhood is a high-density, hosting the lower middle...
victim. On 9 November 2012, President Mwai Kibaki opened the KES 31 billion Thika Superhighway. This mega-project of Kenya started in 2009 and ended in 2011...
rescued two foreigners, one Ethiopian and one Canadian in Gatundu, ThikaDistrict February 24 - 11 people died and nearly 30 injured when a bus and a...
Nakuru and ThikaDistricts and in Thompsons Falls. He then returned to the Secretariat in Nairobi and finally took control of Central Nyanza District as Provincial...
County. Gatundu town hosts the district's headquarters. Kenyatta Road connects the town to the newly constructed Thika Highway. The road is used to access...
former Kirinyaga district. Travel directions by road from Nairobi is through Thika Road past Thika, Kenol and Makuyu (along the Thika Road). The road leads...
central business district off Thika Road. Ruaraka is located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) northeast of Nairobi's central business district, within the...
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