Meru Explained

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 South District
• Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park
• Meru District, a former district of Kenya

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
  • MERU, Holland, 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
• 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