Kabete

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Kabete is a town just outside Nairobi borders in the Central Province of Kenya. Administratively, Kabete is a location in the Kikuyu division of the Kiambu District. Kabete and its environs is inhabited mostly by Kikuyu people. Kabete location has a total population of 29308 (1999 census [1]).

Kabete is also one of the five constituencies in the Kiambu district.

A study in 2005 revealed that Kabete constituency has the least poverty rate in Kenya [2]. However, most residents live off farming and are not particularly rich.

Anthropologist Louis Leakey was born in Kabete.

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Coordinates: 1°16′S 36°43′E

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