Ngong

Ngong is a town near the Ngong Hills along the Great Rift Valley within Kajiado County, located in the southwest of Nairobi in southern Kenya. The name comes from the Maasai word enkong'u, meaning both an eye and a spring of water, and the original place name is usually rendered as the eye of the rhinoceros, or Rhinoceros Spring. The Ngong Hills overlook the Nairobi National Park and the city of Nairobi on their eastern side and the Great Rift Valley, where nomadic Maasai live, on their western side. In 2019 Ngong Town, made up of the Enchorro-Emunyi and Ngong Township locations, had 25,866 residents, and the town sits at an elevation of 1,961 metres. It has a station on the Nairobi to Malaba Standard Gauge Railway, opened in October 2019.