Kanai (Hausa: Gora)[2] is a district as well as a village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of southern Kaduna state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

On the Kaduna State government estimate for 1991, however, the population was put at 17,290.

[2] Agriculture is the major occupation of the people, being that the area is primarily rural.

A survey carried out in 2012 in three villages in the district namely, Sankhwap (Runji), Kanai Mali (H. Gora Gida), and Sagwaza, covering 88 households discovered that over half of them rely on shallow hand-dug wells and natural water bodies which are prone to drought, with only 3% of them able to harvest rainwater for usage.

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