Meru
First-level unit, Kenya: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.
Inside Meru
The 9 ADM2 units of Meru.
People, area and density
Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.
1,651,195
2.9% of Kenya.
1,737,519
+5% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.
6,931 km²
238 people per km².
KE-26
Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.
Meru in humanitarian data
Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.
1,545,673
people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).
29.2%
of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).
9 units inside Meru
Each unit has its own page.
Boundary licences: Public Domain · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buuri | – | 119,619 | 142,485 | 1,320.35 | 91 | 7.3% | 0 |
| Cental Imenti | – | 172,579 | 194,214 | 775.2 | 223 | 10.5% | 0 |
| Igembe Central | – | 194,917 | 247,264 | 805.79 | 242 | 11.8% | 0 |
| Igembe North | – | 180,062 | 189,786 | 1,081.65 | 166 | 10.9% | 0 |
| Igembe South | – | 180,235 | 147,537 | 842.98 | 214 | 10.9% | 0 |
| North Imenti | – | 239,561 | 209,926 | 303.78 | 789 | 14.5% | 0 |
| South Imenti | – | 190,338 | 225,876 | 663.52 | 287 | 11.6% | 0 |
| Tigania East | – | 223,199 | 155,818 | 836.79 | 267 | 13.5% | 0 |
| Tigania West | – | 147,420 | 213,572 | 392.58 | 376 | 8.9% | 0 |
Open exposure layers
Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.
- Urban areas
- 132.7 H3 cells
- বন্দর
- None at this resolution
- বিমানবন্দর
- None at this resolution
- Major roads
- 351.8 H3 cells
- রেলপথ
- None at this resolution
- Rivers and lakes
- None at this resolution
Risk values
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KEN ADM1, source: RCMRD GeoPortal, Africa GeoPortal, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2020
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KEN ADM2, source: IEBC, OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KEN ADM3, source: Benedict Aboki Omare and George Omare, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- দেশ
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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