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Lang'ata

Nairobi County, Kenya · Africa

About Lang'ata

Lang'ata is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Ongata Rongai, 9km from Carnivore Restaurant.

Lang'ata is in Nairobi County, Kenya, with about 170,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Ongata Rongai, about 5 km away.

Lang'ata is a predominantly upper middle-class residential suburb of Nairobi in Kenya. The suburb consists of many smaller housing developments, referred to as estates. They include Nairobi Dam, Otiende, Southlands, Ngei, Jambo Estate, Onyonka, Madaraka Estate, Kutch Prant, Rubia, NHC Langata, Akiba, Sun Valley, Royal

Read more Park and many others. These developments are primarily maisonettes or apartment blocks.

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Within an hour or so of Lang'ata: Carnivore Restaurant (9 km).

Where is Lang'ata?

Lang'ata is in Nairobi County, Kenya, about 5 km from Ongata Rongai.

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Quick Information

Population
172,569
Continent
Africa
Country
Kenya
Region
Nairobi County
Timezone
Africa/Nairobi
Coordinates
-1.3666, 36.7332

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Kenya

Police
999
Ambulance
999
Fire
999
All emergencies
112
Driving side
left
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Worth the detour from Lang'ata

1 notable place within an hour's drive.

restaurant

Carnivore Restaurant

An open-air Nairobi institution founded in 1980, where meat is carved from Maasai swords onto cast-iron plates until you lower the paper flag on your table. Long a first or last night ritual for Kenyan safari trips.

9 km · about 15 min drive

When to drive here

Year-round

Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.

Nearby Destinations

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