Karingari — UN urban centre
Karingari: 72,680 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,560 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2704; territory: Kenya (KEN). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: -0.4599, 37.5139. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 56,660 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 72,680 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 95,744 | Projection |
| 2035 | 107,559 | Projection |
| 2040 | 122,644 | Projection |
| 2045 | 166,762 | Projection |
| 2050 | 253,448 | Projection |
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