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Kikuyu
Town Council in Kiambu County, Kenya

Kikuyu

Kikuyu is a municipality in Kiambu County, Kenya, which grew from a settlement of colonial missionaries.

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The town is located about 20 km (12 mi) northwest of central Nairobi. It is about 20 minutes from Nairobi via a number of routes, including a dual carriage road, the Southern Bypass and has a railway station on the Mombasa – Malaba Railway Line. The town is named after the Kikuyu/Gĩkũyũ people, the major ethnicity that settled in the area. As of 2019, the total population was 323,881.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Sgt (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons.