Meru

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Meru may refer to:

Geography

Kenya

  • Meru, Kenya, city 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 South District
    • ...the three of which had been split in 1992 from Meru District, Kenya
  • Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park

Tanzania

  • Meru District, a district in Arusha Region, Tanzania
  • Meru, Tanzania, a village in northern Tanzania (Meru District)
  • Mount Meru (Tanzania), a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania

Other places

  • Mary, Turkmenistan, a city in the Karakum Desert, formerly named Meru
  • Meru, Hazaribagh, a small town in Jharkhand, India
  • Meru, Malaysia, a town in Klang, located in Selangor
  • Meru, Western Australia, a locality near Geraldton
  • Méru, a commune of the Oise département in France
  • Meru Peak, a mountain in the Indian Himalayas, not to be confused with Mount Meru (see the section Other below)

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, also known as Amîîrú, are a people of Kenya
  • Meru, another name for the Aboriginal Australian Erawirung people of South Australia
  • Wameru, 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 (MERU), a school that researches transcendental meditation

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
  • Maha Meru, a 3-dimensional Sri Chakra Yantra
  • Mount Meru, a mountain in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology
  • Pelinggih meru, the multiple tiered roofs similar to pagoda in Balinese temple
  • An alternate (erroneous) name for Mount Kailash

See also

  • Mount Meru (disambiguation)
  • Mahameru (disambiguation)
  • Mweru (disambiguation)
  • Meroo National Park, a national park in on South Coast of New South Wales, Australia
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