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 degr ...

, a city in Meru County, Kenya ** Meru County, 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 Th ...

*** Meru South District *

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 ...

, 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 peak ...

, a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania

Other places

Meru, Hazaribagh Meru is a census town in the Sadar, Hazaribagh CD block in the Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location It is located at . Area overview Hazaribagh district is a plat ...

, 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 ...

, a town in Klang, located in Selangor *

Meru, Western Australia Meru is a locality southeast of Geraldton, Western Australia. Its local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country ...

, a locality near Geraldton * Méru, 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 ...

, 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 t ...

, Bantu for the Meru people of northern Tanzania

Individuals

* Meru (overseer of sealers), an Ancient Egyptian official under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty * Vatsu Meru, politician from Nagaland, India

Organizations

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

, the current location in Vlodrop, Netherlands

Other uses

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

* 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 represe ...

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 sp ...

, 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''; Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; ; sa, कैलास, ), is a mountain in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It has an altitude ...