Meru may refer to:
Geography
Kenya
- Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya
- Meru County, created by the 2009 merger of
- Meru Central District
- Meru North District
- Meru South District
- ...the three of which had been split in 1992 from Meru District, Kenya
- Meru County, created by the 2009 merger of
- 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, 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
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