New Nyanya is a town in Nasarawa State. It is a district of Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, and is among the towns that make up the Karu Urban Area, a conurbation of towns stretching into the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). New Nyanya is loosely considered part of the metropolitan area of Abuja.
Its neighboring towns are Mararaba, Ado, Masaka, New Karu, and Koroduma
and villages that grew as a result of the rapid expansion of administrative and economic activities in Abuja into neighboring towns, coupled with the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Abuja by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).
The indigenes of New Nyanya are the Gbagyi people.
