Kenya
Coastal Kenya
Kilifi County

Mtwapa

Mtwapa is in . It is a dusty place, about 15 km north of and one of the fastest growing communities in Kenya with about 91,000 inhabitants in 2019.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shanzu.

Hotel
is a suburb of Mombasa, Kenya. is located in Mombasa, off the Mombasa-Malindi highway. Beach has a number of popular hotels, bars and restaurants and is within easy reach of Mombasa, , and Mtwapa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jumba la Mtwana.

Village
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is the site of historical structures and archaeological relics on the Indian Ocean coast of , lying close to the Mtwapa Creek, in Kilifi county, north of .

Mtwapa

Latitude
-3.9474° or 3° 56′ 51″ south
Longitude
39.7424° or 39° 44′ 33″ east
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
6G8X3P3R+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2252299828
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
186072
Wiki­data ID
Q5978252
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Zulu—“Mtwapa” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “মিতওয়াপা”
  • Dutch: “Mtwapa”
  • Finnish: “Mtwapa”
  • French: “Mtwapa”
  • German: “Mtwapa”
  • Indonesian: “Mtwapa”
  • Irish: “Mtwapa”
  • Japanese: “ムトワッパ”
  • Polish: “Mtwapa”
  • Russian: “Мтвапа”
  • Swahili: “Mtwapa”
  • Zulu: “Mtwapa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Mtwapa”. Photo: Omondi, CC BY-SA 4.0.