1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Uganda
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Nansana—532,800, Africa/Kampala, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nansana is GeoNames ID 10943053. Its recorded administrative path is Wakiso District → Central Region → Uganda, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Nansana 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 2024-12-02; 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, Nansana ranks 1,059 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Uganda entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 221. Its 532,800 population value is 0.48 times the 1,106,700 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 902,588 regional median. Nansana is rank 2 among the 2 selected Uganda entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Nansana'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.
Nansana's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kampala at 7.97 km with 1,680,600 recorded people; Kakamega at 247.417 km with 1,867,579 recorded people; Mwanza at 322.953 km with 1,104,521 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 314.983 km. Compared with Kampala, Nansana's recorded population is 0.32 times as large. Against Nansana, Kampala follows Kampala District → Central Region → Uganda in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Uganda cohort, uses the shared Africa/Kampala identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Nansana's. Against Nansana, Kakamega follows Kakamega County → Kenya in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Kenya cohort rather than Uganda, uses Africa/Nairobi instead of Africa/Kampala, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Nansana's. Against Nansana, Mwanza follows Nyamagana District → Mwanza → Tanzania in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Tanzania cohort rather than Uganda, uses Africa/Dar_es_Salaam instead of Africa/Kampala, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Nansana's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 124 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nansana's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 10943053, the coordinate pair 0.3639 / 32.5286, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 232422 at 7.97 km bind Nansana to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nansana's reference point is 0.3639° north and 32.5286° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Kampala is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Nansana's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nansana's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nansana's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nansana, 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
Nansana's closest other entries in this atlas are Kampala (7.97 km), Kakamega (247.417 km), Mwanza (322.953 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-12-02; 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.