1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kenya
Compare this sourced profile of Nakuru, 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 Nakuru—570,674, 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: city in Kenya.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nakuru is GeoNames ID 184622. Its recorded administrative path is Nakuru County → Kenya, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Nakuru 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 2023-12-21; 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, Nakuru ranks 976 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Kenya entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 200. Its 570,674 population value is 0.47 times the 1,208,333 median for the country cohort and 0.63 times the 902,588 regional median. Nakuru is rank 4 among the 5 selected Kenya entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Nakuru's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Nakuru's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ruiru at 135.922 km with 490,120 recorded people; Nairobi at 136.498 km with 4,397,073 recorded people; Kakamega at 160.831 km with 1,867,579 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.909 km. Compared with Ruiru, Nakuru's recorded population is 1.16 times as large. Against Nakuru, Ruiru follows Kiambu 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Nakuru's. Against Nakuru, Nairobi follows Nairobi 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nakuru's. Against Nakuru, Kakamega follows Kakamega County → Kenya in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower 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 above Nakuru's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 837 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nakuru'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 184622, the coordinate pair 0.3072 / 36.0723, country rank 4 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 181032 at 135.922 km bind Nakuru to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nakuru's reference point is 0.3072° south and 36.0723° 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. Nakuru's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Nakuru's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nakuru's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nakuru, 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
Nakuru's closest other entries in this atlas are Ruiru (135.922 km), Nairobi (136.498 km), Kakamega (160.831 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-12-21; 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.