Meru District was a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

of Kenya, located in the Eastern Province. Hived off from

Nyeri District Nyeri District was a districts of Kenya, district in the Central Province (Kenya), Central Province of Kenya. Its headquarters was in Nyeri town. It had an area of 3,356 km2. As Nyeri was established in 1901, it served as the headquarters of the N ...

in 1906 by the colonial government, it was part of the Kenia Province of the

East Africa Protectorate East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya, from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west. Cont ...

. It remained as part of Kikuyu Province even after it was renamed from Kenia. In 1933, boundaries alterations saw Kikuyu and part of Ukamba provinces consolidated to form the Central Province. In 1962, with redrawing of boundaries across the

Kenya Colony The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa, was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until 1963. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a Brit ...

, Meru District was moved to the newly-created

Eastern Region Eastern Region or East Region may refer to: * Eastern Region (Abu Dhabi): Al Ain *Eastern Region, Ghana *Eastern Region (Iceland) *Eastern Region, Malta *Eastern Region, Nepal *Eastern Region, Nigeria * Eastern Region, Serbia *Eastern Region, Ugand ...

. It was among the forty districts of Kenya and one of the six districts of Eastern Kenya. The district returned one member of Parliament to the

Senate of Kenya The Senate of the Republic of Kenya ( swahili: ''Seneti ya Jamhuri ya Kenya)'' is one of the two Houses of the Parliament of Kenya, along with the National Assembly. The Senate was first established as part of Kenya's 1963 Constitution. Af ...

, until Senate's abolition in 1966, when it became purely administrative. In 1992, Meru District was split to give an extra district of Tharaka-Nithi District. Meru District comprises the present-day

Meru Meru may refer to: Geography Kenya * Meru, Kenya, town in Meru County in the republic of Kenya * Meru County, one of Kenya's 47 counties that was created by the 2009 merger of 3 districts: ** Meru Central District ** Meru North District ** Meru S ...

and

Tharaka-Nithi Tharaka-Nithi County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. It was created from Kenya's Eastern Province. The county has an area of 2609 km2 and as of the 2019 census a population of 393,177. It is home to the Meru people. Tharaka-Nithi Cou ...

counties.

References

Former districts of Kenya Eastern Province (Kenya) {{EasternKE-geo-stub