Lamu Island
Lamu Island is a port, city, and island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately 240 kilometers from Mombasa. It is a part of the East African country of Kenya.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Ephymbaya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Matondoni and Kikomani.
Matondoni
Village
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The Coast Province was one of Kenya's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa. Matondoni is situated 2½ km northwest of Lamu Island.
Kikomani
Village
The Coast Province was one of Kenya's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa. Kikomani is situated 7 km east of Lamu Island.
Kimara Maganga
Village
The Coast Province was one of Kenya's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa. Kimara Maganga is situated 8 km northeast of Lamu Island.
Lamu Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island of Kenya
- Categories: car-free place and landform
- Location: Lamu, Coastal Kenya, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Lamu Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة لامو”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ламу”
- Belarusian: “Ламу”
- Catalan: “illa de Lamu”
- Catalan: “Illa de Lamu”
- Cebuano: “Lamu Island”
- Chinese: “拉穆島”
- Croatian: “Lamu”
- Dutch: “Lamu Island”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Lamu”
- Finnish: “Lamu (saari)”
- Finnish: “Lamu”
- French: “Lamu”
- Georgian: “ლამუ”
- German: “Lamu”
- Greek: “Νήσος Λαμού”
- Italian: “Lamu”
- Japanese: “ラム島”
- Lithuanian: “Lamu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lamu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lamu”
- Norwegian: “Lamu”
- Romanian: “Lamu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lamu”
- Spanish: “Isla de Lamu”
- Swahili: “Lamu”
- Swedish: “Lamu Island”
- Venetian: “Lamu”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lamu Bay and Hedebu Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lamu Island”. Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, CC BY 2.0.