Nyakahita is a sparsely populated settlement in the Western Region of Uganda.

[2] The settlement is approximately 59 kilometres (37 mi), by road, east of Mbarara, the largest city in the Ankole sub-region along the Mbarara–Masaka highway.

[3] It is about 216 kilometres (134 mi), by road, southwest of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda.

[5] The Nyakahita–Kazo–Kamwenge–Fort Portal Road makes a T-junction with theMbarara-Masaka highway at Nyakahita.

The town of Lyantonde in Lyantonde District, whose population was 13,586 people in 2014,[6] lies to the immediate east of Nyakahita on this highway.