1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kenya
Compare this sourced profile of Kakamega, Kenya before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kakamega—1,867,579, Africa/Nairobi, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: human settlement.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kakamega is GeoNames ID 195272. Its recorded administrative path is Kakamega County → Kenya, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kakamega occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2022-09-26; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kakamega ranks 224 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Kenya entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 49. Its 1,867,579 population value is 1.55 times the 1,208,333 median for the country cohort and 2.07 times the 902,588 regional median. Kakamega is rank 2 among the 5 selected Kenya entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kakamega's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kakamega's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nakuru at 160.831 km with 570,674 recorded people; Kampala at 241.327 km with 1,680,600 recorded people; Nansana at 247.417 km with 532,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 86.586 km. Compared with Nakuru, Kakamega's recorded population is 3.27 times as large. Against Kakamega, Nakuru follows Nakuru County → Kenya in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Kenya cohort, uses the shared Africa/Nairobi identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Kakamega's. Against Kakamega, Kampala follows Kampala District → Central Region → Uganda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uganda cohort rather than Kenya, uses Africa/Kampala instead of Africa/Nairobi, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kakamega's. Against Kakamega, Nansana follows Wakiso District → Central Region → Uganda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uganda cohort rather than Kenya, uses Africa/Kampala instead of Africa/Nairobi, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kakamega's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 898 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kakamega's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 195272, the coordinate pair 0.2842 / 34.7523, country rank 2 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 184622 at 160.831 km bind Kakamega to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kakamega's reference point is 0.2842° north and 34.7523° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Nairobi is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kakamega's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Kakamega's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kakamega's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kakamega, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kakamega's closest other entries in this atlas are Nakuru (160.831 km), Kampala (241.327 km), Nansana (247.417 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-09-26; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.