Meru

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Meru may refer to:

Geography

Tanzania

• Meru, Tanzania, a village in northern Tanzania (Arumeru District) inhabited by the Meru people, known as the "Wameru" in Bantu
• Mount Meru (Tanzania), a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania

Kenya

• Meru, Kenya, a Eastern Province City in the Republic of Kenya, associated with:
  • Meru Central District
  • Meru North District
  • Meru South District
  • Maara District
  • Meru County
  • Ameru, the Meru people in the Republic of Kenya
  • Meru National Park, a famous Kenyan wildlife park

Other places

• 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

Architecture

• Pelinggih Meru, is the multiple tiered roofs similar to pagoda in Balinese temple

Fiction

• Prince Meru, main character from the anime movie Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 2: The Deep Sea Princess
• Mount Meru, a mountain in Hindu (and Jain and Buddhist) myth
• Meru (Legend of Dragoon), a playable character from the video games The Legend of Dragoon

People

• Wameru Bantu for the Meru people of northern Tanzania
• Meru (overseer of sealers), an Ancient Egyptian official under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty
• Vatsu Meru, politician from Nagaland, India

Organizations

• MERU, Holland, headquarters of the Transcendental Meditation movement
• MERU (Charity), a UK charity that custom-makes equipment for children with disabilities
• Meru Networks, a supplier of wireless local area networks
• Meru Project, an endeavour attempting to show the common origin and metaphysical anchoring of the Greek, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets

Other uses

• Meru language, the language spoken by the Meru people (Ameru)
• Meru, the head bead in a Hindu mala
• Meru (genus), a family of aquatic beetles in the suborder Adephaga
• MERU, Milli Earth Rate Unit, an angular velocity equal to 1/ 1000th of Earth's rotation rate. Sometimes used to measure the performance of an inertial navigation system ^[1]

See also

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

References

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