Meru may refer to:

Geography

Kenya

Meru, Kenya Meru is a town in eastern Kenya. It is the headquarters of the Meru County, and the seventh largest urban centre in the country. Meru forms a municipal council with a population of 240,900 residents. Overview The town is located at 0.047035 degre ...

, a city in Meru County, Kenya **

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 ...

, created by the merger of *** Meru Central District ***

Meru North District Meru North District was one of the unconstitutionally created districts of Kenya, located in that country's Eastern Province. In 1992, it was split from the large Meru District, along with Meru Central District, Meru South District (Nithi), and ...

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Meru South District Meru South District was one of the unconstitutionally created districts of Kenya, located in that country's Eastern Province. In 1992, it was split from the large Meru District, along with Meru Central District, Meru North District, and Tharaka ...

Meru National Park Meru National Park is a Kenyan national park located east of Meru, from Nairobi. Covering an area of , it is one best known national parks in Kenya. Rainfall in this area is abundant with in the west of the park and in the east. The rainfall r ...

, a Kenyan wildlife park

Tanzania

Meru District Meru or Meru District Council is one of the seven districts councils of the Arusha Region of Tanzania.The District covers an area of . and has an max elevation of . Meru District is bordered to the north by Longido District, to the east by Siha ...

, a district in Arusha Region, Tanzania * Meru, Tanzania, a village in northern Tanzania (

) *

Mount Meru (Tanzania) __NOTOC__ Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located west of Mount Kilimanjaro in southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania. At a height of , it is visible from Mount Kilimanjaro on a clear day, and is the fifth-highest of the highest mountain peaks ...

, a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania

Other places

* Meru, Hazaribagh, a small town in Jharkhand, India *

Meru, Malaysia Meru is a town in Klang District, Selangor, Malaysia. Industry Meru is home to Top Glove which is the nation's largest producer of latex gloves. Numerous small-medium industrial complex are located in Meru which is less than 10 km from th ...

, a town in Klang, located in Selangor * Meru, Western Australia, a locality near Geraldton *

Méru Méru (; Latin: Matrius, Meruacum) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Méru station has rail connections to Beauvais and Paris. Population See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 679 co ...

, a commune of the Oise ''département'' in France *

Meru Peak Meru Peak is a mountain located in the Garhwal Himalayas, in the state of Uttarakhand in India. The peak lies between Thalay Sagar and Shivling, and has some highly challenging routes. The name Meru likely originated from the Sanskrit word f ...

, a mountain in the Indian Himalayas, not to be confused with Mount Meru (see the section

Other Other often refers to: * Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy Other or The Other may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack * ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...

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Entertainment

* ''Meru'' (film), a 2015 documentary about climbing Meru Peak * Prince Meru (''Sgt. Frog''), main character from the anime movie ''Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 2: The Deep Sea Princess'' * Meru (''Legend of Dragoon''), a playable character from the video games ''The Legend of Dragoon''

People

Ethnic groups

Meru people The Meru or Amîîrú (including the Ngaa) are a Bantu ethnic group that inhabit the Meru region of Kenya on the fertile lands of north and eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, in the former Eastern Province of Kenya. The word Meru means Shining ...

, also known as Amîîrú, a people of Kenya * Meru, another name for the Aboriginal Australian

Erawirung The Erawirung (Yirawirung, Jirawirung) people, also known as Yirau, Juju and other names, were an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional territory was located in what is today the Riverland of South Australia. They consisted of sub-groups ...

people of South Australia *

Wameru The Meru (''Wameru'' in Swahili), also known as the ''Va-Rwa'' (''Rwa'' being the root word), are a Bantu ethnic group native to the slopes of Mount Meru in Arusha Region. The Meru people share the same name with the Meru people of Kenya, but ...

, Bantu for the Meru people of northern Tanzania

Individuals

Meru (overseer of sealers) Meru was an Ancient Egyptian official under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, Eleventh Dynasty, around 2000 BC. Meru was ''overseer of sealers'' at the royal court and therefore one of the highest state officials. Meru is main ...

, an Ancient Egyptian official under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty *

Vatsu Meru Vatsu Meru is a politician from Nagaland, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy ...

, politician from Nagaland, India

Organizations

Meru Networks Meru Networks was a supplier of wireless local area networks (WLANs) to healthcare, enterprise, hospitality, K-12 education, higher education, and other markets. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, the co ...

, a supplier of wireless local area networks that was acquired by and integrated into Fortinet in 2015 *

Meru Cabs Meru Cabs is an Indian taxi-hailing company. Founded by Neeraj Gupta in 2006, the company is headquartered in Mumbai. Since 2019, the company has been owned by Mahindra Group. Meru provides mobility services to individuals as well as business ...

, a taxi aggregator company based in Mumbai, India. *

Maharishi European Research University Transcendental Meditation in education (also known as Consciousness-Based Education) is the application of the Transcendental Meditation technique in an educational setting or institution. These educational programs and institutions have been found ...

(MERU), a school that researches transcendental meditation **

MERU, Holland Kolleg St. Ludwig is a Maharishi European Research University (MERU) campus located in Vlodrop, The Netherlands. It was originally built in 1909, used as a Franciscan friary and boarding school and purchased by the Maharishi Foundation in 1984. Th ...

, the current location in Vlodrop, Netherlands

Other uses

* ''Meru'' (beetle), a family of aquatic beetles *

Meru language Meru is a Bantu language spoken by the Meru people (''Ameru'') who live on the Eastern and Northern slopes of Mount Kenya and on the Nyambene ranges. They settled in this area after centuries of migration from the north. The Meru people are a ...

, the language spoken by the Meru people (''Ameru'') * Milli Earth Rate Unit, an angular velocity equal to 1/1000 of Earth's rotation rate; see

inertial navigation system An inertial navigation system (INS) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors ( gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (dire ...

* Maha Meru, a 3-dimensional

Sri Chakra The Sri Yantra, Shri Yantra, or Shri Chakra is a form of mystical diagram (''yantra'') used in the Shri Vidya school of Hinduism. It consists of nine interlocking triangles - four upward ones which represent Shiva, and five downward ones represen ...

Yantra *

Mount Meru Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritu ...

, a mountain in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology *

Pelinggih meru A Meru tower or pelinggih meru is the principal shrine of a Balinese temple. It is a wooden, pagoda-like structure with a masonry base, a wooden chamber and multi-tiered thatched roofs. The height of Meru towers represent the Hindu Mount Meru. Mer ...

, the multiple tiered roofs similar to pagoda in Balinese temple * An alternate (erroneous) name for

Mount Kailash Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; ''Kangrinboqê'' or ''Gang Rinpoche''; Standard Tibetan, Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; ; sa, कैलास, ), is a mountain in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It h ...