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Naivasha, 
Kenya
185,944 people lived in Naivasha in 2025. It is the 3249th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Kenya.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Naivasha governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Naivasha grew
For every 10 people in Naivasha in 2015, there were 22.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 315,375 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Naivasha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Naivasha in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Kenya · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Naivasha is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Kenya in 2025, 50 in all, led by Nairobi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Naivasha covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Kenya
Its share of Kenya
Of every 1,000 people in Kenya in 2025, 3 lived in Naivasha, which is 185,944 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Kenya; the coloured squares live in Naivasha. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3232 Jayapura Indonesia186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang Indonesia186,431
- 3241 Balcad Somalia186,328
- 3247 Meja Road India186,137
- 3249 Naivasha185,944
- 3255 Ruwa Zimbabwe185,224
- 3258 Biak Kota Indonesia184,918
- 3269 Atakpamé Togo184,404
- 3271 Brikama Gambia184,321
In Kenya, 2025
- 1346 Eldoret418,175
- 1720 Garissa333,505
- 2526 Mutuati232,440
- 2983 Kisii200,579
- 3249 Naivasha185,944
- 3687 Embu164,283
- 4078 Ongata Rongai148,823
- 5136 Vihiga119,644
- 7167 Kiambu86,758
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Naivasha are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Naivasha publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries