List of slums in Kenya

There are many slums in Kenya, for example in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. According to UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), 55 per cent of Kenya's urban population were slum inhabitants in 2007.^[1] In 2019, around two million inhabitants of Nairobi lived in informal settlements.^[2]

Slums in Nairobi

An aerial view of Kibera

Nairobi

• Dandora^[3]
• Deep Sea^[4]
• Huruma^[2]
• Kangemi
• Kariobangi
• Kawangware^[5]
• Kiambiu
• Kiandutu^[6]
• Kibera^[2] (including villages of Laini Saba, Lindi and Soweto East)^[4]
• Korogocho^[3]
• Kware
• Majengo^[7]
• Mathare^[2] (including settlements of Bondeni, Mathare 4A and Mathare 4B)^[4]
• Matopeni
• Mukuru kwa Njenga^[8]

Mombasa

• Magongo
• Majengo^[9]
• Mzambarauni^[9]

See also

• Squatting in Kenya

• Kenya portal
• Geography portal