Nyika
Nyika ( Swahili for "bushland" or the hinterland of the East African coast) denotes:
- a group of ethnicities in Kenya, see Mijikenda
- an area and mountain in Kenya, see Nyika (Kenya)
- Nyika Plateau , a plateau in Malawi and Zambia
- Nyika National Park , a national park in Malawi and Zambia
- Nyika Juniper Forest , a wooded area in Malawi
- a mountain in Tanzania, see Nyika (Tanzania)
- Part of the old part of the name of Tanzania, as in Lake Tanganyika
Nyika is a family name for the following people:
- David Nyika (* 1995), New Zealand boxer
There are different interpretations of
the meaning of the name Nyika . Derived from the name Tanganyika , “uninhabited land” or “wilderness” (Plants of the Nyika Plateau, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 2005) is a way of interpreting “scrubland” or “the place of the short grass”, as allegedly the Phoka and the Tumbuka are said to have called the land, another.
