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Lamu

Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on , which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in . Situated 341 kilometres by road northeast of that ends at Jetty, from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island, it is the headquarter of and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Town with 25,400 residents
  • Description: town on Lamu Island, Kenya
  • Also known as: “Amu”, “Lamu old town”, and “Lamu Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Manda Airport and Lamu Museum.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
, also called Lamu Airport, is an in . is a small domestic airport located on Manda Island, serving the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's coastal region.

Museum
Photo: Krg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lamu Fort, is a fortification in the town of Lamu in northeastern . Originally situated on the waterfront, the fort today is located in a central position in the town, about 70 metres from the main jetty on the shore.

Place of worship
Photo: Yuma901, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a place of worship.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kikomani and Kimara Maganga.

Village
The Coast Province was one of 's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was .

Village
The Coast Province was one of 's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was . is situated 6 km north of Lamu.

Village
The Coast Province was one of 's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was . is situated 6 km north of Lamu.

Lamu

Latitude
-2.2679° or 2° 16′ 5″ south
Longitude
40.9005° or 40° 54′ 2″ east
Population
25,400
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
LAU
United Nations Location Code
KE LAU
Open location code
6H92PWJ2+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 301243213
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
189741
Wiki­data ID
Q272799
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Lamu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدة لامو”
  • Arabic: “لامو”
  • Armenian: “Լամու”
  • Asturian: “Lamu old town”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lamu”
  • Basque: “Lamu”
  • Belarusian: “Ламу (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Ламу”
  • Bengali: “লামু”
  • Breton: “Lamu”
  • Catalan: “Lamu”
  • Cebuano: “Lamu (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Lamu”
  • Chinese: “拉穆”
  • Chinese: “拉穆古镇”
  • Chinese: “拉穆鎮”
  • Chinese: “拉穆镇”
  • Croatian: “Lamu”
  • Danish: “Lamu”
  • Dutch: “Lamu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لامو”
  • Esperanto: “Lamu”
  • Estonian: “Lamu”
  • Finnish: “Lamu”
  • French: “Lamou”
  • French: “Lamu”
  • French: “Vieille ville de Lamu”
  • Georgian: “ლამუ”
  • German: “Lamu Town”
  • German: “Lamu”
  • Greek: “Λάμου”
  • Gujarati: “લામુ”
  • Hausa: “Lamu”
  • Hebrew: “לאמו”
  • Hindi: “लामू”
  • Hungarian: “Lamu”
  • Indonesian: “Lamu”
  • Italian: “Lamu”
  • Japanese: “ラム”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಮು”
  • Korean: “라무”
  • Latvian: “Lamu”
  • Lithuanian: “Lamu”
  • Madurese: “Lamu”
  • Malay: “Lamu”
  • Malayalam: “ലമു”
  • Maltese: “Belt ta‘ Lamu”
  • Maltese: “Lamu”
  • Marathi: “लामू”
  • Moksha: “Ламу”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gamlebyen i Lamu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lamu”
  • Norwegian: “Lamu”
  • Persian: “لامبو”
  • Persian: “لامو”
  • Polish: “Lamu”
  • Portuguese: “Antiga Cidade de Lamu”
  • Portuguese: “Lamu”
  • Romanian: “Lamu, Kenia”
  • Romanian: “Lamu, Kenya”
  • Romanian: “Lamu”
  • Russian: “Лама”
  • Russian: “Ламу”
  • Serbian: “Lamu”
  • Serbian: “Ламу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lamu”
  • Sinhala: “ලමු”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لامبو”
  • Spanish: “Antigua Ciudad de Lamu”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad vieja de Lamu”
  • Spanish: “Lamu”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa ya Lamu”
  • Swahili: “Lamu”
  • Swedish: “Gamla staden”
  • Swedish: “Gamla stan i Lamu”
  • Swedish: “Lamu”
  • Tagalog: “Lamu”
  • Tamil: “லாமு”
  • Telugu: “లము”
  • Thai: “ลามู”
  • Turkish: “Lamu”
  • Ukrainian: “Ламу”
  • Urdu: “لامو”
  • Venetian: “Lamu”
  • Vietnamese: “Lamu”
  • Zulu: “Lamu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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”. Photo: Cessna 206, CC BY 2.0.