Nairobi–Mombasa Road Nairobi–Mombasa Road The Nairobi–Mombasa Road, also Mombasa–Nairobi Road or A109 Road (Kenya) is the main road between Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city and Mombasa, the country's largest port city. The road is a component of the Northern Corridor. The road starts in the city of Nairobi, at the confluence of "Langata Road", "Uhuru Highway" and "Lusaka Road", immediately west of "DHL House". It continues in a general southeasterly direction, through seven Kenya Counties to end in the city of Mombasa at the confluence of "Digo Road", "Langoni Road" and "Abdel Nasser Road", a total distance of about . The
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