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the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

In the middle of the next night, on the leg from London to Nairobi, Deo remarked that we were passing over Khartoum.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

...our park warden, Mr. Robert Muldoon, the famous white hunter from Nairobi.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

The doctors thought he should go to Nairobi Hospital, which is the best private hospital in East Africa.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

There was a large hospital in Nairobi for white people and another for the native Africans, but the city was a long drive over bad roads.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

So we sold our things, boxed up some personal items and stored them at my parents', and ended up taking jobs with a human rights organization based in Nairobi.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

But he caught something very bad over there in Nairobi, plus he was not all that young.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

What would happen if they heard about it in Nairobi?
Ernest Hemingway -- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

"Nairobi!" I guessed, saying the most foreign word I could think of.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

From what I can piece together, Stone went to the Kenyan border, then to Nairobi, don't ask me how.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

Today it has a staff of fifteen in New York, London, and Nairobi, with an annual budget of $2 million—pocket change in the world of philanthropy.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

We'd get the same reception, same cold stares, at Nairobi Police Headquarters.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

Nairobi, Kenya—Rochester, New York, 1996
Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water

Nairobi = the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris

And I'll have to send a truck off to the lake to wireless for a plane to take the three of us into Nairobi.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
He had once been to Nairobi and had seen the three-story hotel.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
As I turned off the main road from Nairobi onto the road that led to Tumaini, a road that I had known well, I hesitated.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
Medicines and surgical equipment were waiting for me in Nairobi, and so was my automobile, a Ford truck that I could use to carry supplies to Tumaini.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
The road to Mount Elgon heads northwest from Nairobi into the Kenya highlands, climbing through green hills that bump against African skies.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
The first plane flew from Nairobi to Frankfurt, in a country called Germany.
Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water
Salva could hardly believe his eyes when he boarded the plane in Nairobi.
Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water

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