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1. Towns and urban centers
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| Abstract | The coverage shows the towns and urban centres in Kenya derived from the Kenya topographic sheets of scale, 1:250,000 for Northern Kenya and 1:50,000 for the rest of Kenya.There are approximately 1620 towns and urban centres captured in this layer. |
| Additional Attribute Information | Shape: Internally generated by the software
Area: Internally generated by the software
Perimeter: Internally generated by the software
Town_name: Name of the town represented by the points
Town_id: Unique identification for each town class. The towns have been classified into
6 categories namely:
(1) Municipality (2) Township/Town (3) Trading centre (4) Market centre
(6) Lodges/camps (11) City
Town type: Class in which the particular towns fall |
| Projection | Geographic |
| Theme | Administrative |
| Layer type | ArcView Shape |
| Feature type | Point |
| Country | Kenya |
| Contact |
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| Data source | Digitized by International Livestock Research Institute, ILRI, GIS group from
Kenya topographic sheets scale 1:250,000 for Northern Kenya and 1:50,000 for rest of Kenya from Survey of Kenya |
| Map History | Created in August 2000 from the Kenya topographic sheets by ILRI GIS Unit.
Originally known as Kentowns.shp |
| GIS files | zipped shape file |
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