Mtwapa, Kenya

Mtwapa, Kenya is a submarine cable landing point in Kenya (coordinates -3.9461°, 39.7451°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Kenya's international connectivity infrastructure.

Mtwapa is a town located in Kenya's Kilifi County. It is situated 16 kilometres (10 mi) north of Mombasa on the Mombasa-Malindi road. It is close to the Mombasa Marine National Park and Reserve and Jumba la Mtwana. Two informal settlements in Mtwapa, Majengo and Mzambarauni are participating in the UN-HABITAT Participatory Slum Upgrading Program. The project is run by resident committees and aims to provide every household with drinking water and a toilet. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Mtwapa, Kenya, international traffic can reach 34 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Angola, Bahrain, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt, France and 26 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Mtwapa, Kenya in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.