Maua is a town in
Meru County
Meru County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, located in the former Eastern Province. The county lies between 0° 6′ North and 0° 1′ South and between latitudes 37° West and 38° East. It borders Isiolo County to the North, Tharaka/Nit ...
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Kenya
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. From 1992 to 2009, it was the capital of the now defunct
Meru North District (also known as Nyambene district).
Overview
Maua is located 60 km North of Meru Town on the northwestern slopes of
Nyambene Hills and west of
Meru National Park. Maua is the headquarters of Igembe South Sub-County and in the former Constitution, dispensation hosted a municipal council'( Under the new Constitution, the country was divided into 47 counties and Maua is but a town. Maua municipality has a population of 50,826, of whom 13,763 are classified as urba
Maua is one of the economically viable towns in Meru County. Ikweta Country Inn and Conference Centre, Soldat Teachers College and Methodists Nursing School are among the landmarks in Maua.
Maua town is the center of the
Khat
Khat or qat ( ''ch’at''; Oromo: ''Jimaa'', so, qaad, khaad, khat or chat, ar, القات ''al-qāt'') is a flowering plant native to eastern and southern Africa. Khat contains the alkaloid cathinone, a stimulant, which is said to cause e ...
trade in Kenya, and the world. Income from khat exports to Europe were sharply cut when the UK declared the stimulant a
class C drug
These drugs are known in the UK as ''controlled drugs'', because this is the term by which the act itself refers to them. In more general terms, however, many of these drugs are also controlled by the Medicines Act 1968, there are many other drug ...
and banned all imports in June, 2014.
Unusual for a town its size Maua has a wide mix of ethnicities, with Ameru, Somali, Kikuyu, Luo among the dominant residents. Places near Maua are
Meru
Meru may refer to:
Geography Kenya
* Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya
** Meru County, created by the merger of
*** Meru Central District
*** Meru North District
*** Meru South District
* Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park
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Isiolo and
Kathwana
References
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Meru County
Populated places in Eastern Province (Kenya)