Meru is a town in Meru County, Kenya, which the census tables compiled by City Population place in the former Eastern Province. GeoNames locates it at 0.05 degrees north and 37.66 degrees east, at about 1579 metres above sea level, in the Africa/Nairobi time zone, which is UTC+03:00. The 2019 census counted 80,191 inhabitants, against 43,146 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 4,475 inhabitants in 1969.
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 4,475......... 43,146 80,191
Table row, census date 2019-08-24
EA 4,475......... 43,146 80,191
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Meru
GeoNames page, Population
Population 80,191
GeoNames page, Timezone
Timezone Africa/Nairobi
GeoNames page, SRTM3 elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
SRTM3 1579 m
Coordinates
Coordinates 0.04626, 37.65587
SRTM3 elevation
SRTM3 1579 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. Meru, Kenya (Wikipedia)
Lead, locationQuote, Lead, location
Meru is a town in Eastern Kenya just north of the Equator.
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
0.25 37.75 As
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.