Takaungu
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Place details
- Locality
- Mnarani ward
- Region
- Kilifi
- Country
- Kenya
- Population
- 10,760
- Timezone
- Africa/Nairobi
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Kenya
- Located in
- Kilifi County
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Takaungu is a historic Swahili town located on the Kenyan Coast between Mombasa and Malindi, in Kilifi County.
It is 10 kilometres south of the town of Kilifi, in the Kikambala division. Takaungu is located at the Creek in Kilifi North Constituency of Kilifi County in Coast Province. It is 37 km from Mombasa and it is 3 km from the Mombasa - Malindi Road just after the Vipingo Sisal estate.There are eight villages found in the outskirts of Takaungu, namely: Maweni, Vuma, Kayanda,Viungani, Mashehe, Kanyumbuni, Boyani and Kibaoni. Just behind Takaungu, there are two neighboring Mijikenda communities. The Chonyi's in the south and the Kauma's in the north. These two tribes did not settle in Takaungu as they were cultivators and were not fishermen nor sailors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Takaungu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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