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[1] Nyeri is a town situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya. It is the county headquarters of Nyeri County. It is one of the oldest towns in Kenya having been established in the British colonial era. The town was the central administrative headquarters of the country's former Central Province. Following the dissolution of the former provinces by Kenya's new constitution on 26 August 2010, Nyeri town is now the largest city in the newly created Nyeri County.[2] Nyeri hosts the tomb of the founder Lord Baden Powel, the founder of the Scout movement. It is also the home town the late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. Nyeri's Roman Catholic Cathedral also hosts the tomb of Blessed Irene Stefani "Nyaatha" who was beatified on 23 May 2015 in Nyeri. Half her remains preserved in the Cathedral, and the other half at Gikondi. The town is also the home of the famous Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT) founded by the local community in the early 1970s as an institute of technology and converted into a fully fledged university in 2012. The city is situated about 150 km (a two-hour drive) north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands, lying between the eastern base of the Aberdare (Nyandarua) Range, which forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley, and the western slopes of Mount Kenya. SOURCESWikipedia