| Official Name: | Kanai (Gora) |
| Other Name: | Kanai Mali, Gora Gida |
| Native Name: | Ka̠nai |
| Settlement Type: | District and Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Nigeria |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Nigeria |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kaduna State |
| Subdivision Type2: | LGA |
| Subdivision Name2: | Zangon Kataf |
| Population As Of: | 1991 estimate |
| Population Footnotes: | Kaduna State Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning |
| Population Total: | 17,290 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | WAT |
| Utc Offset: | +01:00 |
| Coordinates: | 9.9333°N 26°W[1] |
| Elevation M: | 802 |
| Postal Code: | 802139 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Aw |
Kanai (Hausa: Hausa: Gora) 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.[2] The postal code of the area is 802139.[3]
Kanai possesses an elevation of 802m.[4]
Kanai Mali (H. Gora Gida) has an average annual temperature of about 24.8sp=usNaNsp=us, average yearly highs of about 28.6sp=usNaNsp=us and lows of 18.8sp=usNaNsp=us, with zero rainfalls at the ends and beginnings of the year with a yearly average precipitation of about 28.1sp=usNaNsp=us, and an average humidity of 53.7%, similar to that of neighbouring towns Kagoro and Zonkwa.
[5] [6] The following are some major settlements in Kanai district include:
The district consists primarily of the Atyap people.
At the 1963 Nigerian population census, the population of the entire district was put at 8,660. On the Kaduna State government estimate for 1991, however, the population was put at 17,290.[7]
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.[2]