Ngong Hills
The Ngong Hills are peaks in a ridge along the Great Rift Valley, located southwest near Nairobi, in southern Kenya. The word "Ngong" is an Anglicization of a Maasai phrase "enkong'u emuny" meaning rhinoceros spring, and this name derives from a spring located near Ngong Town.
- Mountain rising to 2,460 metres (8,071 feet)
- Description: range of hills in Kenya
- Also known as“Keambiroiro”“Kiambiruiru”“Ol Doinyo Lollaisihr”“Ol Doinyo Lollaisir”“Ol Doinyo Ololemoya”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ngong and Matathia.
Matathia
Village
Matathia is a village in Kiambu County in the western Rift Valley region of Kenya.
5 km east of Ngong Hills
Ngong Hills
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Latitude
-1.40949° or 1° 24′ 34″ south
Longitude
36.63843° or 36° 38′ 18″ east
Open location code
6GCRHJRQ+69
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Ngong Hills” goes by many names.
Ngong HillsCatalan
Turons NgongCatalan
Ngong HillsCebuano
恩貢山Chinese
Ngong HillsCzech
NgongDanish
Ngong HillsDanish
تلال نجونجEgyptian Arabic
גבעות נגונגHebrew
Perbukitan NgongIndonesian
Colline NgongItalian
ンゴングヒルズJapanese
Imisozi ya NgongKinyarwanda
Ngong-BergeLadin
NgongNorwegian
NgongNorwegian Bokmål
Нгонг-ХиллсRussian
Milima ya NgongSwahili
Vilima vya ngongSwahili
Ngong HillsSwedish
Colline NgongVenetian
Localities in the Area
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