Utawala is a neighbourhood located along the border of

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...

and

Machakos Machakos, also called Masaku is a town in Kenya, southeast of Nairobi. It is the capital of the Machakos County, Kenya. Its population is rapidly growing and was 150,041 as of 2009 and Machakos County had a population of 1,421,932 as of 2019 ...

counties. It is approximately southeast of the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

of Nairobi.

Location

Utawala is located approximately east of Nairobi's

. It is lies along the

Nairobi Eastern Bypass Highway The Nairobi Eastern Bypass Highway is a road in Kenya, forming a semi-circle through the south-eastern and north-eastern neighborhoods of the capital city of Nairobi. The road allows traffic from Mombasa, destined for the central parts of Keny ...

, and borders, Mihang'o to the north. Utawala is a transregional neighbourhood domiciled in both Nairobi's

Embakasi Embakasi is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately , southeast of the central business district. Embakasi is considered part of Nairobi's Eastlands area, lying to the south-east of Nairobi County. The Embakasi proper covers ...

area and Machakos County's Athi River Sub-county.

Overview

Utawala is generally mixed-use neighbourhood in Nairobi. It has a mixture of mid-rises and

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and is home to low-income to

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earners. Utawala Ward, an electoral division within Embakasi East Constituency, borrows its name from the estate and covers the area of the neighbourhood within the

boundaries. The portion of the neighbourhood is in Athi River Sub-county which has similar boundaries with

Mavoko Constituency Mavoko Constituency is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of eight constituencies in Machakos County Machakos County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, which came into being because of the devolved system of governance occasioned by the 201 ...

References

{{Nairobi, state=collapsed Populated places in Kenya Suburbs of Nairobi Machakos County