Lodwar is a settlement in Turkana County, Kenya, which the census tables compiled by City Population place in the former Rift Valley Province. GeoNames locates it at 3.12 degrees north and 35.60 degrees east, at about 500 metres above sea level, in the Africa/Nairobi time zone, which is UTC+03:00. The 2019 census counted 82,970 inhabitants, against 44,153 at the 2009 census, a rise to about 1.9 times the earlier figure in ten years. Its earliest census figure in that table is 13,619 inhabitants in 1989.
Facts
Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Kenya: Cities, Towns and Urban Centers (citypopulation.de)
citypopulation.deTable row, population of the 2019-08-24 census
RV...... 13,619 16,981 44,153 82,970
Table row, census date 2019-08-24
RV...... 13,619 16,981 44,153 82,970
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Lodwar
GeoNames page, Population
Population 82,970
GeoNames page, Timezone
Timezone Africa/Nairobi
GeoNames page, SRTM3 elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
SRTM3 500 m
Coordinates
Coordinates 3.11988, 35.59642
SRTM3 elevation
SRTM3 500 m
Part Of: Kenya, GeoNames page, country hierarchy
Kenya KE Country
On Continent: Africa, GeoNames page, breadcrumb
Africa › Kenya KE
In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), GeoNames page, country hierarchy
Kenya KE Country
View the Source3. Lodwar (Wikipedia)
Lead, locationQuote, Lead, location
Lodwar is the largest town in north-western Kenya, located west of Lake Turkana on the A1 road.
4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cellQuote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell
3.25 35.75 BSh
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