The Mbeere or Ambeere people are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting the former Mbeere District in the now defunct Eastern Province of Kenya. According to the latest Kenya National census, there are 168,155 Ambeere who inhabit an area of 2,093 km². They speak Kimbeere language, which is a dialect very similar to the one spoken by their neighbours and cousins, the Embu and Kikuyu.