Makindu is a settlement in Makueni County, Kenya, which the census tables compiled by City Population place in the former Eastern Province. GeoNames locates it at 2.28 degrees south and 37.82 degrees east, at about 993 metres above sea level, in the Africa/Nairobi time zone, which is UTC+03:00. The 2019 census counted 15,038 inhabitants, against 7,766 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 6,226 inhabitants in 1999.
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
EA......... 6,226 7,766 15,038
Table row, census date 2019-08-24
EA......... 6,226 7,766 15,038
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Makindu
GeoNames page, Population
Population 15,038
GeoNames page, Timezone
Timezone Africa/Nairobi
GeoNames page, SRTM3 elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
SRTM3 993 m
Coordinates
Coordinates -2.27808, 37.81867
SRTM3 elevation
SRTM3 993 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. Makindu (Wikipedia)
Lead, locationQuote, Lead, location
Makindu is a town in Makueni County, Kenya.
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
-2.25 37.75 Aw
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